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Posts: 240
Joined: Mar. 19 2024
From: Hunan, China
New Saddle Changes the sound
Hi everyone! Recently, I found the action on my guitar is too low and the bass was stopped by the Buzz sound. I wanted to raise it. But there is no luthier in my place, and the nearest one is Kim Lissarrague, who lives in Blue Mountain-100 kilometers away from Sydney. So I went into a random guitar store near my apartment and the guy recommended TUSQ saddle to me.
He made a good saddle, and he raised the action. But TUSQ made my guitar sound more modern, and the bass sounds lighter and more monotonous. I don't like it. So I just made a bone saddle by myself. It made the sound more colorful. But it sounds weak and not very flamenco.
Now the action is 3.4mm and 9.5mm on the saddle. Fits tightly between the saddle and the bridge, and the saddle has a little slope. I was thinking the reason: 1. I didn't make a good saddle. 2. 9.5mm is too high. 3. The length of the saddle is shorter than the bridge. 4. The quality of the bone.
Posts: 240
Joined: Mar. 19 2024
From: Hunan, China
RE: New Saddle Changes the sound (in reply to orsonw)
Yes, I cut a stripe of my old card and put it under the saddle. But the sound became smaller. I think that's because the densities of these two materials are different
Posts: 240
Joined: Mar. 19 2024
From: Hunan, China
RE: New Saddle Changes the sound (in reply to rombsix)
I was. I lived in Hunan, Changsha, for college studies. But my hometown is Xinjiang, Urumqi. Now I am in Sydney for my master's degree Maybe there are some good Aussie players in foro
RE: New Saddle Changes the sound (in reply to hxwhf72752003)
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I study Electrical Systems and Engineering Management.
My dad is an electrical engineer. He was one of the first people in the world to design control systems for airplanes. He was recruited by NASA to design missile guidance systems, but he refused to participate in designing weapons, so he left the US and went back to Beirut. Little did he know a couple of years later, a fifteen-year civil war would break out, and the entire country would plunge into darkness. He then became the country's major manufacturer of uninterrupted power supplies (so we could have the TV on to listen to the news of when / where the bombs will be falling next).
RE: New Saddle Changes the sound (in reply to rombsix)
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ORIGINAL: rombsix
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I study Electrical Systems and Engineering Management.
My dad is an electrical engineer. He was one of the first people in the world to design control systems for airplanes. He was recruited by NASA to design missile guidance systems, but he refused to participate in designing weapons, so he left the US and went back to Beirut. Little did he know a couple of years later, a fifteen-year civil war would break out, and the entire country would plunge into darkness. He then became the country's major manufacturer of uninterrupted power supplies (so we could have the TV on to listen to the news of when / where the bombs will be falling next).
I'm now getting an MBA in healthcare management.
Perhaps your dad was working for another dept. NASA never was a weapon development agency, its mission is peaceful. It’s an astrophysics and rocketry - science exploration program. There are other sectors in the U.S. government that would oversee guidance systems for weapons, but specifically NASA kind of reverse engineers weapons systems and breaks out the parts that can be used for civic exploration. It’s been that way from the beginning when NASA grabbed Axis scientists and redirected their work to spacecraft development. Which was also political project, but NASA isn’t really a weapons program. Guidance systems are adaptive to both military and scientific use. My step father was as also an engineer and worked in aerospace.
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