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Juan Suarez
2025-07-16 15:44:50
I changed my technique about a year ago and starting plucking strings with my right hand more to get snappy sounds, and ended up with a lot of broken high E strings. I worked my up to 12 gauge which was killing my left hand after a while, and was still breaking the 12. Installed these saddles on a fender start. Haven't snapped an E string since, tone is slightly crisper too. Managed to get back to 10's on my guitars with no breakage and improved tone. did a second strat and a tele, improvement all around. Highly Recommended.
Fast Eddie
2025-04-25 19:30:50
I love the sound of these saddles! I thought they would sound dull compared to the original bent steel saddles on my Strat but they actually sound a little brighter. I play a lot of blues and the brighter tone worked out great for me. I also love the look of the white saddles paired with my cream and mint pick guard and knobs. I contacted Graphtech for tips to "age" the saddles and yellow them up a bit to match better and their rep said to leave them out in the sun for a week or two which worked great.
C-Dub
2024-12-21 11:13:33
These sound awesome. I have these on a partscaster with a 6-screw vintage vibrato. It uses Fender's big steel block and all 5 Raw Vintage springs (overpriced but DID improve tone). It's strung with 11s. This guitar sounds awesome! Stays in tune as well as a vintage strat vibrato possibly could, due to the TusqXL nut and Hipshot locking tuners... Awesome, I said! I run the trem floating, Carl Verheyen style albeit without his 'angled claw' thing. I have used Tusq nuts and saddles before, on acoustic and electric instruments. If you do your work as an installer and set the axe up correctly, your guitar will be louder, more full, responsive, expressive, and reliable. I'm not a string breaker but I'm after the tone these impart. It's got lower bass extension, but cleaner, with an 'acoustic snap' to it. An extended high end and everything is very balanced with the mids. Gone is the tinny ping of metal saddles. If your gear is all tuned around that sound, you will have to reconfigure gain levels and EQing and stuff, but these saddles and nuts make cheap guitars sound great! I don't work for Graph Tech but I am fond of many Canadians.
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