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Bridge design

Post by Dave M » Fri May 12, 2023 8:15 am

I was looking at a video of Mike Dawes tonight. Very skilled guitarist though I do tend to think if someone wants to play drums they should actually be a drummer! He was in an interview with Tommy Emanuel.

However the guitar he was playing had a really elegant bridge design. No idea if it is an efficient design but it does look really nice.

I wonder if other Anzlf builders use interesting designs...? And can they show that they are effective? I'm talking about SS guitars.

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Re: Bridge design

Post by Dave M » Fri May 12, 2023 8:19 am

Bejesus how do I edit a post!?
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Re: Bridge design

Post by kiwigeo » Fri May 12, 2023 5:04 pm

Posts can only be edited for a short time after posting......its a long story but it involves some characters who kept changing their stories.
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Fri May 12, 2023 8:19 am
Bejesus how do I edit a post!?
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Re: Bridge design

Post by Mark McLean » Mon May 15, 2023 4:40 am

You probably saw Mike Dawes playing a guitar made by Andreas Cuntz in Germany. He makes a really long and elegant bridge on most of his guitars, a bit reminiscent of the moustache style bridge of the older Selmer Maccaferri guitars in length, but more curvy. I like the interesting shaped sound hole too.
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In terms of bridge design there are two generally accepted principles that are important for a bridge to work well:
1. The ends of the bridge should extend across the primary braces (whether they be X-braces, falcate, V or A shaped) to strengthen the soundboard under the bridge and resist rotation.
2. The bridge should be stiff but not too heavy.
Beyond that it is really all aesthetics.

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Re: Bridge design

Post by Mark McLean » Mon May 15, 2023 4:45 am

BTW, if you want to edit your own posts you will notice three small icons in the top right corner of your post, and one of them looks like a pencil. This is the edit button. Click there and you should be able to change stuff.

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Re: Bridge design

Post by kiwigeo » Mon May 15, 2023 9:12 am

A few years ago for reasons that aren't worth discussing we imposed a 30 minute editing limit on posts. I've just changed the settings.

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BTW, if you want to edit your own posts you will notice three small icons in the top right corner of your post, and one of them looks like a pencil. This is the edit button. Click there and you should be able to change stuff.
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Re: Bridge design

Post by Dave M » Mon May 15, 2023 8:20 pm

Thanks Mark, I recall now he did mention the maker. And thanks for the points on bridge design.

It is something I puzzled mightily over when building my fan braced classicals. I was inclined to make a somewhat shorter bridge to save weight but this would then not have intersected the next fan. In the end I went for a traditional length. It is certainly a design that works as one might guess!

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