Laminated Bridge Caps

[Farrell]

How thick to make horizontally laminated hard maple bridge caps? Advantages/disadvantages of various thicknesses?

Ron Nossaman has stated that he uses 1.5 to 2 mm thick laminations, but not the total thickness.

Ron Overs stated that he uses six 1 mm thick laminations for a total cap thickness of about 1/4 inch.

If one is building a new bridge, the root would either be cut from solid stock or vertically laminated (or however) and the laminated cap would be put on top of that.

If one is recapping an old bridge, and only removing the old cap, then obviously the new laminated cap simply replaces the old cap, or there abouts. However, if one does not like the idea of filling old bridge pin hole in bridge root with maple pegs or whatever, the majority of the bridge root will be sawn/routed off. What do folks replace the routed-off root section with? Solid hard maple stock and then the laminated maple cap on top of that?

Seems like it would be just about as easy to simply replace the whole bridge. Yes?  

Thanks for any thoughts.

Terry Farrell