Blisstime 2 Sets 4pcs 6 String Acoustic Guitar Bone Bridge Saddle and Nut Made of Real Bone

Needed new strings for my inexpensive but serviceable Ibanez acoustic, and because I had previously filed down a top nut slot too far, I decided to replace with one better than plastic. After seeing how many reviewers were happy with bone material, I ordered this 4 piece set with the bridge sadddes. I installed both nut and saddle and they have improved the guitar's sound, which I guess is the bottom line. The sound is louder, perhaps with a warmer tone due to more body resonance from better string contact with the body/neck. Intonation up the neck is as good or better than before probably due to the compensated saddle. You will need a good file or two for this or any set up job. Take my advice and compare the height of your original saddle and top nut to these before you install- in my case, these bones were over 1 MM too high so I took the time to file evenly across the bottom edge using a straight coarse file (80 grit sandpaper block is good too if you have that). Without filing the bottom you will get a workout filing down deep slots in this bone material, and deep slots will look like a hack job. At least the nut was very close in width than my original plastic one, so no filing was needed there; but the bridge saddle was about 1 or 2 MM short in width (better too narrow than too wide), and was an extremely tight fit into the bridge cutout (again, I used my file so it fit in the cutout without too much effort). Rated 5 stars because the set is cheap, material is solid, sounds good and is easy to work with. I'd highly recommend watching a few web video tutorials on replacing saddles and top nuts as well as adjusting truss rod and intonation (which go hand in hand with this project).

Nice real bone nuts and bridges. Would recommend --

Restored my old guitar

Use these to upgrade tel guitars. One old on I’ve had for over 20 years and another I bought this year. These are great upgrades to a guitar that might have plastic nuts and saddles. They look great, are low cost, improve your sound and are the perfect size. I’d recommend them for sure.

Fits perfectly. I put these in three acoustic guitars. The first one in my Yamaha which required some sanding to get the height right, the second in a Taylor Big Baby which needed a little sanding on each end a little for height. The third dropped into a Blueridge perfectly. For the cost and the effort, this is an easy upgrade.

I've only just installed the bridge saddle, I haven't yet installed the nut, so my rating is for only the bridge saddle. I have an inexpensive chinese-made acoustic, (Kona), which is a surprisingly good guitar for the price, in terms of materials, fit, and finish. The tone was also okay, when played acoustically. It also has a piezo bridge saddle pickup, which, unfortunately, sounded awful. The loudness of the E and B treble strings completely swamped out the other strings; the guitar was unplayable "plugged in". In a rare instance of it turning out to be good luck that a part on a guitar failed, the G string split/crushed the weak plastic saddle, so I replaced it with this bone saddle. In terms of dimensions, the replacement saddle was almost perfect. Replacement task was relatively easy, I only had to carefully file some string notches and sand about .020" off the bottom of the new saddle. The improvement in acoustic sound was noticeable, but not drastic. I would call it more balanced, also a little less bright. But the improvement in sound when listening to it plugged in was yuuge. The loudness balance among the strings is almost perfect. It didn't turn my $120 guitar into a $1200 guitar, but now it's playable plugged in, and I consider the bridge alone worth the cost of this Amazon item, because it so profoundly improved the piezo sound. I did a side-by-side dimensions comparison of the new bone nut with the one on my guitar, and it seems almost a perfect twin, but since I haven't yet installed it, I have only one other comment on the nut. Considering how much better the guitar sounds with the bone bridge saddle installed, I suspect the nut will improve the sound an imperceptible amount, (on chords with open strings only). Keep in mind that depending on your guitar, changing the nut can be risky, because it may be difficult to change it without damaging the guitar's finish. That is why I deferred installing the nut, I'm just not compelled to at this time. But if the nut on the guitar is ever damaged, I now have a spare.

I bought this bone nut and saddle to upgrade the tone on my Yamaha FG800. I have many high end guitars, Martin, Gibson, and Taylors but still love my Yamaha as my beater but wanted to bring the tone up in quality by replacing the plastic parts. This saddle was a perfect fit and required no filing. The nut was the perfect width and string filing depths but I did have to file quite a bit off the bottom to get the right height. I used my old plastic one as a template so it was not hard just took about 20 minutes of rubbing it evenly on sandpaper flatly across the bottom and checking to get it perfect. I restrung with some new strings, tuned to pitch and wow! A definite tonal improvement. Great quality to this bone nut and saddle combo and I even have the spare set it came with if I ever need to set up another guitar. Also swapped out bridge pins for ebony ones and added a k&k pickup. A great way to take a basic guitar and upgrade it. I would also not hesitate to use this nut and saddle on any of my $$$$ guitars if/when they need replacing. These were surprisingly very nicely made and sound really amazing, plus very easy to work with for a professional fit.

Not a perfect fit for a Gretsch Jim Danny Guitar! The length and depth were correct but the width needed to be sanded quite a bit to fit in the gap...after that, it worked fine...it's not a drop in replacement.