Really like the pins for appearance. The bone saddle took very little work to fit the slot and about three tries to get the action to where I wanted it. Very noticeable increase in what I would say is the upper midrange tone and the length of sustain on notes. I used Bob's saddle as a pattern to make an ivory saddle from a spear whale tooth I have. I like it even better ...but this could be because I made it . Much simpler than I thought it would be. The tone in the Baggs pickup is much better with both the bone and ivory than with the Tusq.