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Your cart is empty.F-3403 Golden Gate Guitar Saddle Blank: Raw - This top-quality natural bone saddle blank is designed for guitar bridges with a wider slot, enabling you to fill the channel without the need for plugging the slot and re-drilling. We source the finest available bone, which is best in color, consistency and sound properties.
TSR
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2022
The Golden Gate F-3403 are supposed to be 3 1/4 inch x 15/32 inch x 1/4 inch. Unuckily what I received is more like 3 1/4 x 1/3 x 1/8. They are packaged and labeled as F-3403. So something is wrong here.
ace
Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2020
I was able to do all the shaping with my belt sander. I was having a hard time finding something wide enough for my guitar.Guitar sounds a little brighter
W. Spriggs
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2018
Great bar and did the job perfectly.
ExRxIT
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2017
Nicely machined and uniform from piece to piece. Good quality material. They measure 3/32" thick. Unfortunately they are a couple of thousandths too thin for the saddle slots produced by my 3/32" spiral downcut router bit. The fit is just a bit too loose to be acceptable. I will try another bit before giving up on these blanks, but at the moment I wish I hadn't bought them. It would be nice if they were sized to allow for final sanding to a snug fit.Update: After swapping router bits and making a new slotting jig, these blanks fit acceptably well in my saddle slots. I upped the rating to 4 stars. It is certainly convenient to just pull a blank out of the parts drawer and not have to do major machining on it. I still think the blanks should be a hair thicker so they could be sanded to a final fit.
Donald Gillies
Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2017
Good quality, nice uniform colour and texture. I'll buy from here next time as well.
SEM
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017
These are rough cut bone so you will need to sand any surface you are not filing away (appropriate for the price), but good price for the size. I would purchase again.
Mark V.
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017
Redid my martin D18 vintage worked great
Digital Man
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2017
All saddle blanks are uniformly the same size and perfectly straight. A luthier friend saw my purchase and said reverentially, "These are nice." Individual blanks work out to be about $3.33, which is far cheaper than StewMac per piece, and, buying through Amazon saved me the cost of shipping as well. You may not need a full 1/4 inch width, but find out if Golden Gate has the saddle width you require.
Jazzguitarist
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2015
Good quality blanks. All measured right at 3/32" making the fitting process even faster for my vintage style Martin.
Marko Darko
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2015
Incredibly hard bone. Be prepared to use a lot of elbow grease in getting it shaped! :-)
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