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06-22-2010, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: North Alabama, Huntsville | | | Bridge Jack
Anybody know where to find a bridge jack?
Dustin Williams from Williams Fine Violins in Nashville had when he was doing some set-up work for me. All I can seem to find on-line is violin-cello bridge jacks.
Thanks
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06-22-2010, 02:37 PM
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Luthier, Dallas Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | |
06-22-2010, 04:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Or the luthier could make one with some scrap wood and a few bolts and dowels |
06-23-2010, 07:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: North Alabama, Huntsville | | | Thanks. Nothing came up when I searched before. I don't know why I didn't just go straight to Met.
Bejoyous. I might give that a shot. |
06-23-2010, 09:55 PM
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Luthier, Dallas Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bejoyous  Or the luthier could make one with some scrap wood and a few bolts and dowels | Hmmm, I could even write "herdim" on it to instantaneously double its value!!!  |
06-24-2010, 07:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: North Alabama, Huntsville | | | I assume you would want to use some hardwood similar to maple. Am I correct, or would typical wood butcher scraps work fine? |
06-24-2010, 09:51 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | | Any hardwood should do the job.
Reading this thread, its occurred to me that it would be fairly easy to turn a discarded bridge into a string jack. I'll have to do some thinking... |
06-24-2010, 11:58 AM
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Luthier, Dallas Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas | |  flickr
Made it this morning.. Works great! Note that the bass it's on is a 1/4 size. I wanted to get it cut so it'll go as low as possible..
Last edited by Cody Sisk : 06-24-2010 at 11:59 AM.
Reason: bah..
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06-24-2010, 01:28 PM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | That's what I'm talking about! But you used a new bridge blank...  |
06-24-2010, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: North Alabama, Huntsville | | | What material do you have on the feet? I was wondering about that because you would not want to have to shape the feet to every differently contoured top you ran accross. |
06-24-2010, 01:42 PM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | I have some thick soft cork here that would be ideal...  |
06-24-2010, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | |
Excuse my ignorance, but what is it used for? |
06-24-2010, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Forest Grove, OR | | | It is used to lift the semi-tensioned strings off the bridge, so you can modify the bridge without dumping the soundpost...among other issues. I find them very handy on the smaller instruments, but now I feel a terrible need for a home-built Bass Bridge jack. :-)
Last edited by 1st Bass : 06-25-2010 at 03:39 AM.
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06-24-2010, 05:26 PM
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Luthier, Dallas Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | The bottom of the feet are lined with soft cork for that universal fit. I had to use a bridge blank to get the thickness I needed to get the bamboo dowels in. I had this blank collecting dust because it's one of those, you guessed it, cheap soft chinese bridges. The threaded rod spins on a small washer so it doesn't dig into the wood. |
06-25-2010, 07:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: North Alabama, Huntsville | | | Did you glue the washer in place or countersink it or other? |
06-25-2010, 07:52 AM
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Luthier, Dallas Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SplitNick Did you glue the washer in place or countersink it or other? | Naw! Just a couple drops of cyanoacrylate. |
06-25-2010, 12:15 PM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | | Prett sweet Cody! I've been wanting to mill one of those out of aluminum with individual adjusters for each string; now you've got me pretty motivated!
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06-25-2010, 06:18 PM
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nice
maybe the bottom half of a dead aubert adjustable. |
06-25-2010, 09:38 PM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Now you're talking SUBARU. Just drill out the upper legs and install a pair of long 1/4-20 bolts with wing nuts. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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