Graph Tec string saver saddles vs tusq-saddles
TT
Can you give me information in the difference between Graph Tech string
saver saddles and TUSQ saddles?
I know string saver saddles have the string saver material between them and
string, what's the difference in sound?
Many thanks for answers,
-TT
Derek
on a Carvin Super Strat I had, and really couldn't tell much
difference in tone, but I really liked them.
Twang
I've not tried the graph tech.. just the tusq. they compare very well
to bone.. maybe better as the ad says..
I couldn't really tell.
all the black nuts I've ever used from anyone came off pretty quick
and got bone or tusq.
I like their string trees for sure.
TWANG
Cyberserf
Same material, different colour. The String Savers is black, the Tusq
is off white. They are both made by GraphTech. They both do what they
say. I like bone better but I keep a running stock of both TUSQ and SS
nut and saddle blanks...I'm not impressed with the bridge pins (IMHO
and YMMV).
Regards, CS
White Spirit
> I've not tried the graph tech.. just the tusq. they compare very well
> to bone.. maybe better as the ad says..
> I couldn't really tell.
> all the black nuts I've ever used from anyone came off pretty quick
> and got bone or tusq.
> I like their string trees for sure.
I had the opposite experience with Tusq. It didn't improve the tone
compared to the plastic nut that it replaced, the tuning stability was
far worse (although the nut had not been cut very well) and it
eventually fell off when I removed the strings one time.
I have GraphTech saddles, nut and string trees on another guitar and it
sounds great. The tuning stability is sometimes excellent and sometimes
quite poor due to the nut not having been cut properly. When that has
been fixed, I expect that it will hold its tuning very well with the
tremolo.
White Spirit
> Same material, different colour.
Different material, different colour. Tusq is marketed as synthetic
bone and is not made with graphite.
The Repair Guy
Tusq = polymer
Graph tech = ??
Their site says "String Saver saddles are made
with a unique combination of materials... "
The Repair Guy
repairguy1993 dot netfirms dot com
RichL
My impression is that the Graph Tech String Saver material is a
graphite-impregnated polymer.
Cyberserf
Same material, different colour. Tusq is a graphite composite
synthetic polymer, so are String Savers. Same company, different
blurb. I remember when the TUSQ first came out (SS where first..)...at
that time, the ads were: "Same great formula as our String Savers but
with a different colour for a more vintage acoustic look. Looks like
bone, but better than bone"...Yaddah Yaddah.
GraphTech ( the company) only makes graphite composites...hence the
name. The SS today are marketed more towards electric instruments
(hence the small radiused insert saddles and individual saddle pieces
for the Fenders market...they even have some with impregnated piezos
in each saddle insert called a Ghost System). But marketing is only
skin deep and over the years they have found it profitable to blur the
similarities and differentiate their product lines...not a bad call,
but it doesn't change the leopards spots.
In any event, it is a nice material to work with and has a decent tone
and, unlike bone, it is consistent from piece to piece (no
voids)...and, as advertised, they are both self-lubricating. So, to
the OP, whatever they are made of, they both work.
-CS
TT
good answers, many thanks, you guys rock!
-TT
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Graphtech saddles are the best, everything else is junk. I have them
on my guitar Juliet.
If you play through bright amps like Fenders they help cut down on
some of the brightness, and you also lose a bit of the metallic sound
that metal provides, they are a definite improvement, and also help th
guitar stay in better tune and break less strings, due to less
friction.
Romeo Rose
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