Classical Guitar Bone  Saddle
Designed and Made By Chris Alsop in Derbyshire, UK.

This saddle is made from high-density Ox bone and is for use on classical guitars.
These saddles are renowned to give excellent tone, playabilty and instrument projection.

• Saddle Length : 85.0mm
• Saddle Width   : 2.3mm
• Saddle Height at Low E  : 8.0mm
• Saddle Height at High e :  7.0mm
• Compensation Type  : G Compensation
• Right Handed
• The saddle profile will be a straight line from Low E to High e

Its recommended that the width is made a bit larger than the existing slot width and its sanded to fit perfectly by the fitter (this is an easy job and we supply an instruction video and the sandpaper!)

Purely acoustic guitar saddles should be a good snug fit to get maximum coupling from the string to the top of the guitar. Electro-acoustic guitars fitted with an undersaddle pickup should have the saddles fitted so that there's even pressure across the length of the pickup - which sits all the way across the bottom of the saddle slot - hence a snug fitting saddle is still desirable but not so tight so at to prevent the saddle bedding down nicely on the pickup.

TONE TRANSMISSION
Bone, horn or hardwood saddles sound better than plastic ones because harder materials are more efficient at transmitting the strings vibration energy into the guitars bridge and body.

FITTING PRECISION
Often saddles - bone or plastic - are not snug fitting in the saddle slot  and some of the strings energy is lost because of this. A good fitting saddle will always makes an impressive improvement in the tone and loudness.

WEAR AND TEAR
Saddles do wear - often little grooves wear in a well used saddle and these make the transfer of the strings vibration energy into the saddle and bridge less efficient and can cause the string to bind. A new saddle with polished string contact areas - that are the right area as well - massively improve the tone.

LOOK AND STYLE
Our saddles look professional, are highly polished and add to your instruments visual style. All the saddles we make are in polished natural bone.

BETTER PLAYABILITY FOR LEFT AND RIGHT HAND
Get a better action and playability for the left hand by making the strings follow the fretboard shape. Get the strings in a nice line over the sound hole which helps the right hand muscular memory.

BETTER NOTE PITCH ACCURACY
Compensation make the notes more accurate - this makes the harmonies between note simply sound better and this results in everything you play sounding better.

We perform many quality control checks during manufacture and prior to dispatch to ensure that you receive a saddle that fits your guitar to your specification. Essentially the better it fits - the better it sounds! It is highly polished - especially where the strings contact it.

• FREE : Fitting instructions and DVD showing how best to install a saddle
• FREE : Plenty of abrasives and polishing material - the better the fit the better the tone !