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look on ebay for Bruceweiart & inlaidartist

both are EXCELLENT traders who will do great value bulk orders

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Fillipo...I've bought nut and saddle blanks from Chrislin Trading for years and have nothing but good to say about the service, pricing and quality of her products.

Check it out...http://www.chrislintrading.com/

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

Does anyone know how Ms. Song faired in the turtle pick court room?

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I saw a dead turtle on the road today and thought of her.

I also wondered how many picks I could make out of that dessert plate size turtle?

Is road kill legal?

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I just ordered some nut/saddle material from Inlaidartist because I misplaced my saddle blank!

Any comment on their material? are they properly treated and degreased?

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This is the most recent article I could find.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090328/NEWS/903280381/1350?Title=Woman-accused-of-importing-turtle-shell-picks

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

I ordered some material from Bob Colosi. I like the look and feel of it, but have not strung up the guitar yet. He is a great guy, and is very helpful.

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Jim Hansen

I've been very dissapointed with Stew Mac's, you get bright white bleached bone or this terrible looking translucent stuff they call "aged or antiqued" or something like that.

There is guy in Florida, Custom Guitar Saddles. Got every kind of bone, ivory, nuts, saddles, pins, buttons, blanks... get the picture? He gets all my business. It's what he deals in exclusively. I know what I'm getting when I order from him, not so when ordering these things from the box stores.

Dave

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Dave_e, is there a website for the guy in Florida?

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I've bought from Bob Warther, "warthermuseum", on ebay. Good, hard bone, competitively priced, good guy to deal with.

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I buy my nuts and saddle from Shane.

www.highmountaintonewood.com

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Alain Moisan
Former full time builder of Acoustics, Classicals and Flamencos.
(Now building just for fun!)

On my guitars I use real beef bone nuts that I make myself. I enjoy making as many part as I can and it gives me great satisfaction to know that the bone on the guitars came from a cow from a neighboring farm. If you haven’t done it before, here is some advice:

I buy hip bones and I ask the butcher not to cut them in half, which they often do for people who use them for soup stock. The butcher usually charges me about a dollar for a pair of bones, and I can make about 18 nuts from these. First I boil them in water to remove the fat. This can take several hours and you will want to bring it to a rolling boil, and change the water frequently to pour off the fat. This stinks pretty bad so if you can do it outside over a fire pit I would recommend it. The marrow inside is also kind of gross looking – if you have a hard time with stuff like that.

Then I mark where I’m going to make my cuts, and this part is planned out very carefully for minimum waist. I use my bandsaw and I have a blade that I only use for the bone. When the parts are cut I flatten one side and one edge on the disk sander, but the edge does not have to be perfect. I then use a jig that allows me to sand the other side parallel to the first and also controle the thickness, and I leave it a little oversize. You might want to also do this outside because the smell will stink up the whole house – and I guarantee you will never forget it! I then go back to the bandsaw and cut it to width, leaving it a little oversized. The rest is done either by hand on the sanding disk, or just on a glass block with adhesive paper. This is the part that I really enjoy. Bone really is a nice material to work with!

These bone parts are sometime white in colour, but sometimes more of an ivory. And this does not bother me because it gives the instrument what I like to think of as ‘organic authenticity’, and it adds to the character of each instrument.

I hope this was of some use to you!

Wolf

That works for people who lives in a country that raises cattle for food (like USA and Australia) but due to the mad cow disease beef we get elsewhere are stripped of any bones. So any cow bone we can get here are usually imported. I am not sure where inlaidartist gets their bone but if they are well processed and of good quality I think their prices are not too bad. In Taiwan any cattle raised here are raised for milk and some (increasingly smaller number) are used for traditional farming and therefore definitely not slaughtered for food. I wonder if pig bone can be used instead...

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com