Saddle material...Corian for nothin'

[grip]

These days, many shops that make custom kitchen cabinets stock Corian. When
they make a countertop there are scraps left over. Sometimes sink cut-outs
are sold for cutting boards, but the end cut-offs are thrown out. I called
a local shop for a sample of "bone color" Corian and they said no problem.
When I got there they had a nice sink cut-out waiting for me. I got to talk
to the shop manager When I explained what I doing, he lit up and started
talking about the brand new Martin 12 string he had received for Christmas.
He gave me enough end cutoffs to make hundreds of saddles, nuts and maybe a
set of choppers.

I have made guitar saddles from bone, ivory, Micarta and Corian. Generally
bone was my favorite until Corian came along. The last bunch of bone saddle
blanks I bought all looked very good but a couple sounded like they weren't
of uniform density or hardness or something. Corian sounds a lot like bone.
Better yet, it is homogeneous in density and hardness. It is easy to work
and polish. And, if you don't want to cut your own blanks, I think Elderly
and 1stQuality sell Corian blanks. I now have a Corian saddle on a Collings
D1A and it has never sounded better.

Of course, no saddle material is right for every guitar, and yada dada
nada...but flame away. what the hell, after the last couple of days, most
posters to this group are in the kill file. Oops.

Grip

[Norman Draper]

>Of course, no saddle material is right for every guitar, and yada dada
>nada...but flame away. what the hell, after the last couple of days, most
>posters to this group are in the kill file. Oops.
>
>Grip

Holy cow..... My server belched or something and I lost about a zillion
messages. I'm getting a lot of "re:'s" at this point.....
How bad were things? Or am I in your kill file??? lol

Norman ( I Don't THINK I've Ever Been Put There.. But How Would I Know??)
Draper

[Rod B.]

I have a Corian saddle on my new Ratliff mandolin. I had to do a web search to
find out what it was. It seems to work good, look good, and in theory should be
much more consistent than bone.

So anyway, really this is just a long "me too" post.

Rod B.

grip wrote:

> (snip) I now have a Corian saddle on a Collings

> D1A and it has never sounded better.
>

[JamStrangler]

sounds like a winner to me !

ray

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:36:40 -0500, "grip" <kodac...@juno.com>
wrote:

>These days, many shops that make custom kitchen cabinets stock Corian. When
>they make a countertop there are scraps left over. Sometimes sink cut-outs
>are sold for cutting boards, but the end cut-offs are thrown out. I called
>a local shop for a sample of "bone color" Corian and they said no problem.
>When I got there they had a nice sink cut-out waiting for me. I got to talk
>to the shop manager When I explained what I doing, he lit up and started
>talking about the brand new Martin 12 string he had received for Christmas.
>He gave me enough end cutoffs to make hundreds of saddles, nuts and maybe a
>set of choppers.
>
>I have made guitar saddles from bone, ivory, Micarta and Corian. Generally
>bone was my favorite until Corian came along. The last bunch of bone saddle
>blanks I bought all looked very good but a couple sounded like they weren't
>of uniform density or hardness or something. Corian sounds a lot like bone.
>Better yet, it is homogeneous in density and hardness. It is easy to work
>and polish. And, if you don't want to cut your own blanks, I think Elderly

>and 1stQuality sell Corian blanks. I now have a Corian saddle on a Collings

>D1A and it has never sounded better.
>
>Of course, no saddle material is right for every guitar, and yada dada
>nada...but flame away. what the hell, after the last couple of days, most
>posters to this group are in the kill file. Oops.
>
>Grip
>

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The Martin OOO-28EC comes with a corian nut on it...

Chris

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[LeachGuitars]

I use it almost exclusively, what I really like about it is that it's
lighter weight. (plus it smells better)
Harv

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[juvenal]

LeachGuitars wrote...

> I use it almost exclusively, what I really like about it is that it's
> lighter weight. (plus it smells better)

Hmmm.... I'm gonna have to try that. I've got tons of it tucked into odd
corners of the shop. I use the sink cut-outs to keep veneer scraps flat.
Most of it is bone, I think, but I'm sure I've got some emerald and sapphire
corian, too. I'll have to keep the emerald in mind if I ever plan on making
a green instrument! >8^)

Corian is acrylic; any experience with Avonite? It's a dense polyester
countertop material, looks like granite and takes a high polish. I've got
some of that laying around, too.

juvenal

[LeachGuitars]

I've used it ( Avonite) for inlays but not for nuts and saddles, it would
probably work, but I seem to remember it being a little softer. I even used
Bone Corian as a fretbd.,peghead overlay, pickguard and tailpiece on an
archtop that I got crazy on a while back
http://www.leachguitars.com/custom4.htm ) It's nice to scratch on....
Harv

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I just snagged a whole *bunch* of paper core phenolic, have sawed/planed it into nut & saddle stock; this is the dark
brown stuff, that looks like rosewood when polished.

I can saw/plane this to required thickness, if anyone wants some; email me.

Jeffrey
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