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I'd like to try using a 3/16-1/4" wide saddles on my next couple of guitars, as Ervin Somogyi
recommends. I see lots of material that wide at LMI and SM, but they are all meant for nuts,
so they are shorter than the 3" or so length I'd like to start with as blanks. Does anyone know
a supplier that can get the the longer blanks?

TIA,

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Gene

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason- Mark Twain

Stew-mac has 7/32".

Bottom of the page here http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Nuts,_saddl ... ddles.html

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For anything non standard, I just make my own. An old dog bone sawn to rough size and run through the drum sander on a backer board covered with some stickit sand paper. Stops the small piece of bone from skidding around, and only takes minutes to make. Best of all, they cost almost nothing.

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Allen R. McFarlen
Barron River Guitars & Ukuleles
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Cairns, Australia

You can always cut your own. If you don't feel like getting a beef bone at the butcher's and processing yourself, you can get them at the pet store. Avoid the ones that have been steamed; it softens them. Bone cuts reasonably well on the band saw, and can be planed with a hand plane if you grind a very short bevel on it. Bone is pretty tough stuff. It planes much better when it's wet, but that also makes it swell a little, so don't make the fit at all loose if you've been working it wet. I finish off by grinding the surfaces wet on my diamond stones, which gets them smooth and flat. I don't have a sander, and sanding bone stinks.

Chrislin Trading...best place in the world to buy bone

http://www.chrislintrading.com/

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

Try Allied.

I get mine from a violin shop in Toronto, that also sells guitar stuff - Heinls .. they get them from Japan .... excellent quality.

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
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[quote="Allen McFarlen"] An old dog bone sawn to rough size and run through the drum sander

Allen, I would have thought you would be using kangaroo instead of dog. I guess that's one way of dealing with your warn out pet.

Cheers,
Danny

Try David Warther, I've gotten some very good, hard bone from him:

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/warthermu ... omZQQ_mdoZ

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