bridge pins - brass, rosewood or ebony?

[digitalkettle]

Worth asking the opinion of the chaps at Brook...saddle material might be worth considering too. I think brass would be going too far.

Doh...I didn't mean a brass saddle!

[bertie]

dont believe you.............you'll be saying put a bigsby on a macefarri (sp?) next

[digitalkettle]

I'm only replying to get my 1000th post out of the way

[paulmapp8306]

Well, the bridge, back and sides are all Rosewood - so thats a possible.

Also though, the guitar has always been on the warm side when compared to Martins, Taylors and Taks - so maybe I should give the Brass ones a go.

[paulmapp8306]

Done some reasearch on variouse sites, including TGP, Gibson, Martin and Taylor.

The result is Ive ordered these which are 50p less that I had left in the Paypal account.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=270384390376

Ill let you know if they make a difference, and if so what that difference is.

[digitalkettle]

Buffalo horn?!! Isn't that a bit like ivory?

[noisepolluter]

Having tried plastic, ebony and buffalo horn with the same guitar and same brand of strings I personally prefer the buffalo horn - slightly tighter than the ebony which with a shorter scale length and mahogany back/sides sounded a bit flubby. With an Avalon though, ebony might be just the ticket. For a modest handful of beer tokens you can buy my ebony pins if you want (assuming they fit - please pm if interested).


Edit: just read your post at 7:57 - oh well, I'm sure the buffalo will be dandy too.

[sam_m]

I can see brass being very zingy. Might be nice though.

[andrewrg]

In my experience tone modifiers come in this order of magnitude:

Saddle material
Strings
Picks





Bridge pins-and I'm very much a sceptic. In 40 years of playing acoustics I've only ever noticed one difference; aesthetic.

[gibsonslinger]

rule of thumb , the same material as your bridge makes it like one "unit". or i have camel bone ones which are lovely