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Your cart is empty.Customize the (spider or biscuit-bridge) resonator guitar sound with a Maple saddle for rich tone and the traditional vintage sound that only comes from hardrock maple. Replogle Reso maple saddles bring the time-honored dobro tone while providing the strength and volume of the traditional maple saddle. The split maple/ebony cap configuration puts the plain maple under the plain strings to keep them even and not too bright, while the ebony cap on the saddle beneath the wound strings serves to brighten them up to match the plain strings, yielding a much more even and balanced sound. Reso guitars are infamous for intonation problems. Another Replogle innovation is to carve the saddle under the first two plain strings, and then smoothly angling the other four wound strings to greatly improve the intonation. The saddle requires final trimming and slotting.
laomo
2025-08-12 14:08:12
This saddle is likely one of the best; a lot of careful design work has gone into it. The problem with it (and with other replacement saddles) is that its presence in your house is a clear sign that you are up to your jowels in a difficult situation. Getting out of it with a resonator that plays how you want it to will take courage and committment because fitting this thing is freaking hard, terribly tedious and requires taking off the hood of the resonator numerous times. This particular saddle, as well as being so tall that the action would be Rabelaisian without modification, turned out also to be too wide, so I had to sand off a huge chunk of the bottom to get a playable instrument, being careful to take the material off in steps to avoid the dreaded resonator buzz, and then turn around and carefully trim/sand off the sides so that I could get the hood back on. The bottom e landed up perilously close to the edge, which bothered me so much I sanded down another saddle I had and tossed the chopped one. The second one worked, and I am happy. Frankly, though, I wish I had just left the action the way it was. I did finally get to where I could fret the instrument, and I tell myself that the playability and sound is better now. But that's probably just cognitive dissonance. So much tedium, aggravation and sheer exhaustion in such small thing. And drills and sanders and gauges. And screwdrivers. If you are just a naive amateur guitarist who fancies playing Little Martha on a resonator like Dickie Betts on Sundays and has no other great passion and special interest in having an easy-to-fret resonator, my advice is develop your slide technique and leave the action alone. If you take off that hood, you are automatically in an iffy, tortuous situation. Take it to a setup pro if you just can't live with the action. You will be much happier.
S. Gilbert
2025-06-05 15:08:35
If you're looking for a no-radius (flat), compensated saddle for a biscuit bridge reso, this is the ticket. If, however, you need a radiused saddle, keep in mind that you'll likely lose all or some of the compensation by radiusing it yourself. In my case, I needed a 12" radius and after filing the cap to 12", all of the compensation was gone, therefore, I had to re-compensate the high E, B, A and low E strings for proper intonation. I've done quite a bit of this with other acoustics I've worked on, so not a big deal but it does take time (and patience). Also, since I also replaced the biscuit bridge and reso cone (both from Repogle) I had to hog off quite a bit of material from the saddle to obtain the desired action, since the height of the new cone is a bit taller than my original. Overall, I'm very pleased with the upgrades to my Jonathan parlor reso guitar. Sound and playability are both better now, which is important since I gig with this guitar routinely.
MrlopezBrew
2025-02-03 16:11:31
Had to return this because it came with the ebony in the high string cut aways and bare wood over the lower strings section, was also more half and half when it should be 1/3 ebony 2/3 wood. I already replaced with a full ebony version.
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