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| Nateracer - 2018-01-09 11:48 AM
Saddles have not changed that much!! It's the one (mostly) company that went to elephant gullets that RUINED the market!!
The part that has changed is that everyone THINKS they know how to measure a saddle and they DON'T! There is NO such thing as an 8 inch Circle Y, Billy Cook, Double T, Blah, blah, blah saddle unless you are talking about 2 things! Martin OR DRAFT tree!
Many times, standard is 6.5, wide is 6.75, and huge is 7. Not to mention, gullet is only a very small piece of the pie, as was mentioned above. Bar angle, rock, etc are just a few more pieces of the pie!
Not exactly true.
The circle y Lisa Lockhart extra wide was a 8" gullet, with a 120 degree bar. This was before Martin came out with their wide gullets.
I hear the extra wide became the wide, but I don't know that for sure. |
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