Tusq Bridge Pins vs Plastic Bridge Pins Comparison Acoustic Guitar

In this video, I played first my acoustic guitar fitted with plastic bridge pins, then afterwards, I replaced these platic bridge pins with Tusq bridge pins and played again. Hear the tone if there is difference after changing bridge pins from plastic to Tusq by Graph Tech Guitar Labs.  The guitar I used was Guild D4 HR acoustic guitar.

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How to Distinguish Guitar Saddle Material (Bone, Tusq, Plastic) | Edwin-E

 

 In this video I explained how to determine if the acoustic guitar saddle is a bone, Tusq (GraphTech) or plastic materials. The most common thing about synthetic saddles is that they have holes at the bottom, where as bone material is solid. I also did some drop tests in this video to hear the difference in the sound produced by each saddle.

Tusq Saddle and Tusq Bridge Pins Unboxing | Edwin-E

This is my unboxing of a package that came from GraphTech Guitar Labs in Canada.  The package contains Tusq Saddle and Tusq Bridge Pins.  These are synthetic material developed by GraphTech Guitar Labs and according to their website, this Tusq delivers the optimum frequencies from the strings to the guitar top, producing richer and fuller tone.  They also call this Tusq as man-made ivory.