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wooden bridge insanity (help designing)

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jordan_frerichs

Jan 20, 2008
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Nebraska
#1
Seems all that comes to mind when i try to design lately, is a wooden bridge. I am not sure how sound some of the designs and concepts are. I was curious if anyone had an ideas they where wanting to through into the mix, or help bounce ideas off of, to further the designs. Also if there are any structure errors in the desings, obviously.

I have quet a few this and that ideas (a few notebook pages full), but I will only go into a few for know (bad battery.
One thing that just popped into my head a couple minutes ago, is using dowels as saddles and string intries. uing one wooden dowel with holes drilled (or 2 close together, sadwitching the strings), and one slotted all the way around for strings, both peices removeable and held in by string pressure to a wooden holding fixture, or something like that.
Will put a few sketches and other ideas latter. any thoughts right now?
 
#2
I like Dennis Havlena's approach to it- he's got a customisable wooden electric bass bridge.

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#9
I like Yvargs design.
I also like Dennis Havalena's .... but I think I would used brass screws instead of nylon. Anything would be better than nylon.
Stringed instruments work on string vibe frequency and I would think the nylon would act as an insulator.


Matt
 
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Lizooki said:
I like Yvargs design.
I also like Dennis Havalena's .... but I think I would used brass screws instead of nylon. Anything would be better than nylon.
Stringed instruments work on string vibe frequency and I would think the nylon would act as an insulator.


Matt
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May be Im blind but i dont see any nylon screws Lol (are u talking about the ones one the sides?)... now I dont know what's the material use for the saddles...

Correction: I was thinking that u were talking about Yvargs Design...
 
#12
rgarcia26 said:
why is that u are not happy with the CT brigge? can u tell me what are the disadvantages..?
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I haven't tried it yet, so I can't say if I'm happy or not... But it does offer less freedom of adjustment for intonation and action, which I might not need, but which might be of some use...

I'll know better once I get the strings on my bass and start trying to get it properly set up...
 
#15
I was thinking about doing a bigsby style wooden bridge at some point, but it would certainly be a bit of a challenge.

Otherwise here are some possible directions to get the imagination flowing (they're not wooden but they are different from standard designs).
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I think the cool thing about making your own bridge is that you can make it unique!
 
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PasdaBeer said:
one more pic!
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pandabeer why don't you combine your idea for the bridge plate with the other idea above.

Make a round saddle that you can rotate and then an adjustable piece comes up from it. You turn the center peice to get the correct height, then you turn the saddle to line up with the string. Here is one saddle.
 

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WarriorJoe7 said:
pandabeer why don't you combine your idea for the bridge plate with the other idea above.

Make a round saddle that you can rotate and then an adjustable piece comes up from it. You turn the center peice to get the correct height, then you turn the saddle to line up with the string. Here is one saddle.
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When i designed that bridge sketch, the idea was to have no metal/plastic touching the strings, just natural materials.

hight adjustment is done during intial set up with groving the sadles, and fine tuning is with rosewood shims.
 

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