>Ron Nossaman has stated that he uses 1.5 to 2 mm thick laminations, but >not the total thickness. !.5mm or thinner is my preference, since 1.5mm is about as thin as I can get with my planer, but 1mm would be fine with me too. About 6mm total thickness allows enough for the notches. >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. Yup. >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? I don't have any problem at all with plugging the old holes. I figure the cap determines the quality of the string termination, not what's at the bottom of the pin. >Seems like it would be just about as easy to simply replace the whole >bridge. Yes? Well, not exactly. Even if you cut half the bridge root down to eliminate the old pin holes, you would have plenty left as a router guide to trim the new super thick CAP. That's not much more difficult than just replacing the top 6mm compared to making a whole new bridge. Ron N
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