Where to purchase a Pono saddle?

strat4me

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I contacted HMS to purchase a Pono PC tenor saddle and was told they don't have them.

Anyone have any idea where to order one of these?

Thanks!
 
I thought the guy who owned HMS was involved with Pono, or his family was at least. Hm. It seems they would've at least given you a lead. Maybe try a different person at HMS?

If you do your own work, you may just have to order a saddle blank and make a new one from it...or pay someone to do it if you can't find one elsewhere.
 
All saddles have to be custom fitted to the instrument.
Exactly. It's an important point to be made.
It saves a lot of work though if you can find something that already has the right specs to rough fit your instrument before fine tuning height and such.
 
Thanks for the tips. I have customized from scratch - not a biggie, but as said, easier if you have the originals actually used on Ponos. I'll follow all tips.

Stew-mac and LLMI have no uke saddles at all but in each case you can buy one bridge with a saddle. The llmi one is too narrow for the slot so I can buy a bridge and saddle from Stewmac and cuts it down. Disappointing and a little surprising.
 
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I thought the guy who owned HMS was involved with Pono, ...

IIRC, I too thought that Andrew Kitakis, owner of HMS had his father and brother Noah as close-at-hand with Koolau/Pono.

@ strat4me - Methinks if you called them and ASKED for Andrew Kitakis, and spoke with him, that you'd likely get a better answer.

Email will likely only get you the luck of the draw for whatever staff happens to be checking the account at that time.
 
Try http://www.lmii.com/ or https://www.stewmac.com/. All saddles have to be custom fitted to the instrument.

Stew-mac and LLMI have no uke saddles at all but in each case you can buy one bridge with a saddle. The llmi one is too narrow for the slot so I can buy a bridge and saddle from Stewmac and cuts it down. Disappointing and a little surprising.
 
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Ponos (at least the ones I have) don't have a standard nut width. The closest ukulele-specific saddle I know of is made by Graphtech, like this one https://www.amazon.com/Graph-Tech-Acoustic-Saddle-PQ-9250-00/dp/B0043NQWKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515974932&sr=8-1&keywords=PQ-9250-00+%3A+TUSQ+Acoustic+Ukulele+Saddle.

You can email HMS staff direct. All their email addresses are on the web site. The person I emailed has always been the one to answer, including Andrew. Joel is the set-up guy and if anybody knows he will. In my experience they have incredible customer service.
 
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