bone pins

You could pay up to $50 for a set of bone pins that are not any more good looking or great sounding as these. Fit and finish on these is top grade. I have changed out ebony/plastic pins on 6 recent Alvarez guitars and the fit was perfect, and let me tell you I can tell the sound was improved. I have used them on 3 Yamaha that fit perfect. They were not a perfect fit on my Martins....I had to ream out the holes to make them fit. I have purchased 15 sets of these. Very satisfied. The Blisstime saddles are also top notch at very reasonable prices.

Inexpensive upgrade to replace the factory installed plastic bridge pins. Fit my Martin X Series DX1AE perfectly. Coupled with a new bone nut and saddle the guitar sounds awesome! Punches in way above it's price point. Nice upgrade.....well worth it!

These pins look "good" and are way better than cheapo plastic. Installed them in a new guitar build, used 5 degree taper reamer for fitting. Would call theses " 5 degree" pins, the most common taper for newer, mid and low range acoustics. The dots are small and affixed with epoxy. When buffing them out on a buffer, the epoxy showed, but you have to be inches away to see it. They are not fantastic works of art, they are Chinese bridge pins, but they are bone and are better than plastic OEM pins. Its my belief and experience that hard bridge pin material provides a brighter sound than molded soft plastic - don't ask me to prove it. Sand a bevel on the bottom of the pin, down and away from the slot so the string ferrul doesn't get caught on the bottom of the pin.

Compared to the pegs that came with the old Yamaha beater guitar I fixed up, these are a hair larger, which is good because the holes in this poor thing had seen some abuse. They look nice, and they fixed that buzz on the E string. The price is reasonable, and they are not made of plastics, so Mother Earth thanks you.

These pins are standard size and work in the guitar I put them in. They are very beautiful and were a little whiter than I expected, but that's okay. I think the problem with the other reviewers may have been that, depending on the wear on the pin holes, the standard size pins won't hold a string down. I recommend these pins for a newer guitar and a well known brand name pin set for an older guitar. There is one brand that I know of that makes their pin a little longer and larger to compensate for time and use. They stick out farther than these. This is a great product though, and along with new strings, I was able to get some really rich tones. (Not that I know that the pins make much of a difference in tonality) I'm just a beginner level guitarist.

They’re nice enough bridge pins however they are much bigger in diameter than the bridge holes for my Yamaha guitar. Once inserted, they stuck out a good quarter of an inch which is unacceptable to me

Interesting customer experience: I originally received a set of plastic pins meant to look like bone and I left a correspondingly poor review; I also requested a refund and notified Amazon about the misleading listing.I was contacted by the seller who informed me about problems with other vendors selling the same pins but made of plastic rather than bone. She suggested my order may have been filled with one of these fake sets and offered to send me a genuine bone set for no charge.She was very polite and apologetic and did not ask that I modify my original one star review. But I'm happy to do so now that I've received the pins and confirmed they are in fact real bone.The way to check is to use a small file (even a coarse nail file will do if you don't have tools handy) and scrape a small amount from the bottom of the pin. You may need a magnifier to see it but plastic filings have a fibrous appearance while bone is more purely granular. A sniff of the file should also reveal a telltale bone smell (if you've ever had a tooth drilled you know it).Speaking of filing bridge pins, check out StewMac's tips page for a helpful video on keeping string ball ends from riding up the pin slots by putting a 45 degree angle on the bottom. It'll improve your tone and help avoid bridge plate damage.These pins are the real deal and the abalone stamps on the tops are attractive to boot. I put them on my Martin OM-1, replacing the stock plastic ones. They not only look better, but after applying the 45 degree trick and setting my string ends right, it seems to me the tone is not only louder and richer. I'm happy to find a relatively inexpensive source for these.

Wonderful tone to be had from this cheap acoustic guitar upgrade. A lot of budget guitars come with plastic bridge pins, bone is the traditional material.