Snakewood - anybody have experience with this?

kspeed · 10-21-2008, 12:13 AM

I was ordering a bunch of random replacement parts and noticed some acoustic snakewood bridge saddles were available. Well, why the hell not?

Now I'm not sure what to do with them. I only ordered one set - I'm not about to experiment with a customer's guitar - and now I'm tempted to try them in my Martin acoustic. It currently has ebony saddles with a rosewood bridge. What, if any, change in tonality can I expect? I work mostly with electrics so I'm curious...that and I just changed the strings so I don't want to waste another set if I can avoid it!

djwilbanks · 10-21-2008, 12:31 AM

I dunno... but perhaps the sound will have more... bite?

stinger · 10-21-2008, 05:26 PM

I've made pens out of snakewood and the wood loves to split. Very expensive and often the wood was useless. It looked icredible though.

Shai`tan · 10-21-2008, 07:11 PM

I made an amazing knife handle out of a piece of snakewood years ago. Stunning wood.

shotgunlew · 10-23-2008, 09:58 AM

Snake wood from what I remember is a wood thats harder to work with. If I remember from a article I read a bit ago ( Ill see if I can dig it up ) People use it for fingerboards, But have very little success. I think It cracks up pretty quick.

Pushead · 10-23-2008, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djwilbanks

I dunno... but perhaps the sound will have more... bite?

Groan.

djwilbanks · 10-23-2008, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pushead

Groan.

10-21-2008, 12:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
kspeed Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Richmond, VA Posts: 618 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Snakewood - anybody have experience with this? I was ordering a bunch of random replacement parts and noticed some acoustic snakewood bridge saddles were available. Well, why the hell not? Now I'm not sure what to do with them. I only ordered one set - I'm not about to experiment with a customer's guitar - and now I'm tempted to try them in my Martin acoustic. It currently has ebony saddles with a rosewood bridge. What, if any, change in tonality can I expect? I work mostly with electrics so I'm curious...that and I just changed the strings so I don't want to waste another set if I can avoid it! __________________

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stinger Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Hartford, Wi Posts: 967 Thanks: 20 Thanked 10 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Snakewood - anybody have experience with this? I've made pens out of snakewood and the wood loves to split. Very expensive and often the wood was useless. It looked icredible though. __________________ Steve

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Shai`tan Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 96 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Snakewood - anybody have experience with this? I made an amazing knife handle out of a piece of snakewood years ago. Stunning wood.

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