tapping strings

[Ron Nossaman]

>Assuming a 1 degree angle from the bridge to the front termination point you
>are nearly cutting the angle in half.  A 50 mm string set at a 1 degree angle
>gives a height of 0.87 mm.  Lowering it by 0.38 mm is quite a bit actually....
>considering that wire guage 13 (typical for this area og the scale) is only
>0.031 inches or roughly 0.78 mm You've got that string buried so deep into the
>bridge you probably would have trouble digging it out.  I dunno about you
but I
>cant remember the last time I saw a string groove that is equivalant to half
>the diameter of a string. :)


And the point is.... Don't worry about it. If you dress the bridge cap down
to the bottom of the string grooves, you haven't changed the angle a bit
from what you measured before teardown. Unless you go deeper than the
string grooves.

Ron N