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How can I tell if my nut/saddle is bone or synthetic? I've read ALOT about replacing synthetic nut/saddle with bone. Is there a way to test for bone?
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Sand it and smell it. Bone stinks!

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Bite it, if it leaves tooth marks it's synthetic.


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The way to tell any synthetic material from a natural material is to touch it with a hot pin, and take a whiff. Bone, Tortois shell, pearl, ivory, etc.., all smell of burnt protein, which smlles like burnt hair or fingernails(protein).

Synthetic materials will smell of solvents.

Careful touching a hot pin to anything you think may be celluloid, as it is flammable. Big time. The pin doesn't need to be glowing red. Just heat the point of it with a match for a second and touch it to the piece in question.
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