Unbleached Bone

As a professional musician and guitar tech, I highly recommend your change out your old plastic, ebony, and faux tortoiseshell pins for a set of solid bone bridge pins and these do not disappoint. I installed these on a Martin D18 guitar and a Gibson J-200. The Martin fit perfectly and the Gibson required a little sanding of the pins to fit flush on the bridge (see below). The color of the pins is as advertised, unbleached bone (my favorite), the color is consistent on all six pins, the Abalone dot inlaid looks great and is uniform on all pins. I have replaced bridge pins on most of my guitars and many of my client’s guitars and it is important to know about the fit. First, use a digital calibrator to measure the pins on the guitar to be certain the new ones will fit. Sometimes it is necessary to use fine sandpaper to sand down the pin shaft to properly fit the bridge (my Gibson J-200). Do not underestimate this very simple step since it can make all the difference in the fit, appearance, and effectiveness of the bone bridge pins. There are a lot of myths, arguments, and debates about the sonic effectiveness of bridge pins. In my opinion, something organic as opposed to plastic (fake), just makes sense when dealing with an acoustic guitar. Not to mention, bone is far superior in longevity and sustain over ebony, plastic, or other synthetic materials. On some guitars, the pins have produced definable, measurable, and conclusive sonic advantages. On others, the results showed a negligible difference. Many people find a positive difference in the sound using bone bridge pins. In any case, bone bridge pins are of superior quality, a longer-lasting material, and a better-looking component for your guitar.

These pins are very nice made of real bone. They have added a little extra sustain and tone very well. The craftsmanship is impeccable. Looks like someone really did some very nice handwork on these, highly polished, very consistent and an excellent value for the price. The size described by the seller is very accurate. These pins lean more to a 3°taper than a 5°taper but fits perfect in my Gibson Hummingbird. These pins are heavy duty quality and the Pau dot inlay is superb. I highly recommend these pins. Oh, and comes with a nice little pin puller you can put on a keychain.

These are nice bridge pins. I bought them to put on my Ibanez AWFS300CE acoustic/electric guitar. They were too thick to fit, so I scraped them down with my pocketknife. I chose this brand for the Ibanez because the nut and saddle on it are unbleached also.

Adds a little style with the abalone dots

When compared to rosewood pins, these unbleached bone bridge pins add brightness and clarity to the tone. I initially installed them on my Martin D15, and the guitar was immediately louder, brighter, and had more string to string definition. They added real depth to the bass, in fact the guitar sounded a lot closer to my 50 year old Martin D18. Unfortunately the D-15 lost that really woody midrange sound I prize it for, and I will be changing back to the wooden pins. I have plans to use these bone pins on another finger style guitar that would really benefit from them. I am looking forward to hearing what they do for my 47 year old O sized finger style guitar (Mahogany/Spruce), and based on my experience with the pins so far, I think they will be a perfect match. Unbleached bone is so hard, much harder than bleached bone, and despite this hardness, these pins are really well finished and polished to a high gloss. They look great next to the unbleached bone saddle. Still, it's all about the sound, so if you need more life, brightness of better note to note definition, these will help you get there at a good price.

Excellent bone pins

For 11 dollars these made a massive difference in the tone of my Martin D-35!! When you use all bone for the nut, bridge and pins it really makes a huge difference and these are an affordable way to change the tone of an acoustic guitar!

I have an Ibanez Talman acoustic guitar that uses non-standard bridge pins. Not only are they non-standard, but you can't buy the stock pins anywhere. Even Ibanez's website doesn't have them. They're bigger around than standard ones, and the stock pins are not tapered at all. So I was running out of luck finding pins that would work anywhere. But these pins worked perfectly. They are tapered, but the top end has a big enough diameter that it fits in my bridge perfectly. And I like that they are bone. The color actually goes with my guitar better than the cheap white, plastic pins it came with. Just be aware that if your guitar takes standard sized pins, these will probably not fit without either sanding them down, or boring out the holes. But they worked perfectly for my Ibanez Talman.

The strings have a nicer sound to them.

Gived a Great tone on both of m'y guitar.

Great product REAL BONE nice color looks vintage

多分標準のアコースティックのはずですがかなり太めのため最後まで入りません。 面倒なので２ｍｍほど浮いて使っていますが音質は良くなったようです。 ブリッジも同時に牛骨にしたのでそのせいかもしれませんが・・・ 時間のある時に径を合わせて音の変化を見てみたいと思います。

as advertised