[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
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| Author: | gozierdt [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Source for long, wide saddle blanks |
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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| Author: | Kent Chasson [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:44 pm ] |
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Stew-mac has 7/32". Bottom of the page here http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Nuts,_saddl ... ddles.html |
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| Author: | Allen McFarlen [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Source for long, wide saddle blanks |
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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| Author: | Alan Carruth [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:48 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | JJ Donohue [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Source for long, wide saddle blanks |
Chrislin Trading...best place in the world to buy bone http://www.chrislintrading.com/ |
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| Author: | SStallings [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:14 pm ] |
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Try Allied. |
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| Author: | TonyKarol [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Source for long, wide saddle blanks |
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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| Author: | DannyV [ Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Source for long, wide saddle blanks |
[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 |
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| Author: | Jeffrey L. Suits [ Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Source for long, wide saddle blanks |
gozierdt wrote: 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, 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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