Graphite Saddles: pros and cons

Surprisingly bright I like them .
Cons? they sound like themselves if you get my meaning and they don't look that great on a chrome bridge.

 

My personal feeling is that there is absolutely no reason to change to a graphite saddle. If string breakage is an issue it only means that the string groove needs to be properly filed and polished. If you are set on switching saddles I heartily recommend switching to bent steel saddles (i.e. Callaham) and add a little vintage character to your axe. YMMV

 

Why not solid steel saddles and some teflon lube?

http://store.guitarfetish.com/upststsafitr.html

 

Nope. I use the graphtech compensated saddles on my MIM 50's tele. I like em. But the solid steel saddles are modern, not traditional, and you said you wanted to know what else was out there.

 

Graph Tech makes the Feraglides, with a metal saddle body and a piece of graphite right where the string rests. They work like a graphite saddle but look more traditional.

 

Graphtech also make Tusq saddles for strats .

 

Saddle types
1.pressed steel ,Fender 11.3mm Gotoh 10.8mm
2.cast steel, Gotoh
3.milled steel ,Hipshot
4. brass, Gotoh
5.graphite, Graphtech
6.tusq, Graphtech
7.zinc (mazac) CBS Fender
8.composite steel graphite ,Graphtech Ferraglide.

 

I had some Graphtech saddles made for an Alembic guitar once. They replaced brass saddles. I would say they darkened the tone a bit. I liked them for a while but then switched back to brass.

 

Don't forget titanium and cryogenically treated stamped steel.

 

Oh yes ,and the ones dipped in fairy piss.:BEER

 

Nah thats crazy talk. Pixie dust is much better