Bob Colosi bone bridge pins

[stringerstranger]

anyone here that would like to upgrade your existing guitar bridge pins should check out Bob Colosi's. just installed a set of his "experimental" dyed bone pins in my Taylor 322e and boy do they look and sound great. he has a great range of products, is very helpful, and just a pleasure to do business with.

[5bassman]

I've purchased several bone saddles from Bob and they were definitely worth it.

[Phil Goodson]

I've used his saddles and like them. The pins make no difference.
This is a mandolin forum.

[stringerstranger]

thanks for your gracious response to this post Phil. jeez.

[Tom Haywood]

Yeah, I would add that this is also a bouzouki and octave mandolin forum. Some of those have guitar style fixed bridges and use bridge pins, so there might be some interest here.

[Jeff Mando]

I would hazard a guess that with the exception of Ricky Skaggs and Ronnie Reno, most of us "mandolin players" started out on guitar.....

[CarlM]

And even Ricky is a really good guitar picker too!

[mandroid]

Its largely cosmetic, You OK with that? I have replaced white plastic pins with some made from wood

similar to the bridge plate itself

[stevedenver]

Well, like having a coffee or beer with friends, i like sharing info with similarly musically minded folks. Even...by gawd...about guitar.
I cant imagine someone stopping a conversation to say, you cant talk about THAT.

I too have bobs pins and saddles. Superb work.
And, as for pins, some guitars change in sound, i have read, some dont.

Abalone dots are, and always have been , a must for me

[allenhopkins]

...Abalone dots are, and always have been , a must for me

Me too; the acoustic properties of abalone far exceed those of of, say, mother-of-toilet-seat.

[stringerstranger]

cosmetics were a big factor, but in this case a couple of the stock pins were evidently not seating properly (both showed a sharp "seating" ring on the pins) so I figured if I was going to need to sand down these two pins why not just upgrade. I had to do just a hair of sanding with 1000 grit paper) to get the high E seated properly on the set from Bob. they really look nice and the two strings (G and B) seems to coming thru better. again I could have done the same with the stock pins, but Bob was pleasure to do business with and helped me pick out a set that really do look nice- so for a little money I'm very pleased with the results.