Crosby Slotted Pure Ebony Bridge Pins - Abalone Dot

These are quality genuine ebony wood string pegs. I have now replaced the plastic pins in my 3 guitars. For 2 of these guitars. I had to sand using strips of sandpaper on a flat surface and held in place with double sided tape. Took just under an hour for each guitar. Well worth it. Sound is louder and sustain is improved too. They also look very nice. I bought previous pegs from 2 different sellers but despite stating they were ebony wood, they were clearly black plastic. My advice is to pay a bit more and get these quality genuine ebony pins. They also arrive in a nice tin to avoid damage in transit.

These bridge pins come in a little tin box with a sliding lid: the presentation is good. The pins themselves were visually a bit disappointing: the shell inlays are very small and with little lustre, colour or figuring. You may as well buy the cheaper plain ones. The pins were a little oversize for my guitar. I used an inexpensive diamond file to slim them down a bit. It’s much easier than using sandpaper and it took only a few minutes per pin. Then, lubricated with candle wax, they slotted in quite nicely. Do they work? I don’t know this guitar very well but there does seems to be some volume increase, possibly more clarity and definitely more sustain.

These are very nice for the price but quite big for the holes, I used a Dremel and a sharp knife to make them fit and they have made the sound quality ten times better. I have an Epiphone masterbilt excellente and for some reason all the hardware is bone but the pins were cheap plastic and affected the sound badly. Once I made them fit to size they are really easy to use. The abalone looks great and the bone causes a brightness in the tone of the sound, I will always use these in future

These bridge pins look beautiful and well made. However, I tried to fit them to a Yamaha folk guitar, a Washburn Cumberland Jumbo and an Epiphone 200 and they didn't fit into the bridge holes of any of them. I fitted them into a drill one at a time and at a moderate speed and using 80 grit aluminium oxide paper got them turned to a suitable size. Total time for me was 40 minutes. They look good fitted to my Epiphone.

Great product had to sand it down for my guitar but excellent transfer of tone.

These pins arrived quickly in a little tin than can be used afterwards for storing items such as plectrums. The pins themselves are bone and are quite thick. It took quite a lot of elbow grease to sand them down to the right size for my Epiphone Inspired by Hummer. However the effort is worth it as the sound is definately richer with the bone pins compared with the stock plastic ones. I don't know why they supply the guitar with the stock plastic pins but bridge and nut are alledgely bone. The bone pins are a definate upgrade and also are much easier to pull out to change strings.

Nice looking and nice quality. Sadly I can't use them as one of them is cracked and another one has a part of it chipped off so it is unusable. I am disappointed given the number of 5 star reviews. Sadly I can't review them for the fit or sound as two of them are unusable out of the box. Very disappointing given the price. Double check the pins when opening to make sure they are OK before using.

Five out of six fitted perfectly. One needed sanding down a bit. This a bit tricky but it didn't take as long as I thought it would. They all vary in diameter a bit. I won't know much more until I change strings again. I'm happy so far. My guitar sounded great after I put them in, but it did before!