Anyone Here Use The Graphtech Tusq Jag/Jazz/Mustang Saddles?

[August]

Just looking for input from users. Wondering if they're less bright, better slip for vibrato use etc. Currently using Staytrems, who I kind of wish would make their barrel saddles in various materials for experimenting (brass in particular, my Tele go-to).

[threewordname]

I use graphite in two non trem tune o matic guitars. On my SG I used to break 2 and 3 strings at a time before the replacement. Now hardly ever. On my talman the low E saddle got thrashed, so I went with what I knew.

I don't hear any difference in tone, but the graphite saddles have held up much better than the originals.

[fenderjeff]

I've been using them on my CIJ JM since 2005. I like them because it's a bright guitar and it softens it a bit. The strings don't slip out of the bridge even when playing hard.
Just notice that I mounted them backward : the spring hole is too big and the screw can't stay well in the saddle. Reverse the saddle and the spring won't move and the guitar will stay in tune.

[alkalineHemlock]

I've played a few and felt like I was playing on a guitar with roundwounds. The acoustic tone was definitely dampened, though the amplified tone (to me) seemed minimally affected.

[andy_tchp]

They're awful.

A few previous discussions:

Anyone using the Graph Tech Saddles on there [sic] jag?

Staytrem vs Graphtech Saddles

[mackerelmint]

I have graphtech saddles on my strat, and I really like them in that application.

Some people like the sound, some hate it. I haven't found it to affect my strat's sound at all, and certainly less than the pickups and big ol' brass trem block I stuck in there. It sounds damn good, saddles and all. Nice and stratty.

The big thing with the mustang saddles as I see it is that the fucking things don't really fit. There are those gaps between. Bleah. Janky.

[Con-Tiki!]

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