More on bridge making

[David Love]

Is there any reason you wouldn't make a bridge root out of pinblock
material?  I'm thinking of a straight bass bridge in which the material
would be turned so the laminations were vertical.  I have a fair amount of
scrap.

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>; <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
> Date: 5/9/2003 7:48:07 PM
> Subject: Re: More on bridge making
>
>
> >As I'm looking more at bridges lately, I tuned a Kawai KG3C today and
> >noticed that the bridge seemed to be made of solid maple.  Am I correct?
> >There seemed to be no cap.  I meant to ask this question of Ron the other
> >day in response to one of his posts.  If making a bridge out of solid
> >maple, the grain should run horizontally not vertically?
>
> I don't really know. Flat cut caps tend to split, but I haven't seen
enough 
> of them to know if that's the case with solid bridges.  Capping either a 
> flat or quarter cut root should be equivalent, safe, and dodge the issue.
I 
> think what I said was that horizontally laminated bridges are every bit
as 
> good as vertically laminated ones, or something to that effect.
>
>
> >Laminated bridges create a faux vertical grain,
> >it wood (ha ha) seem, though the grain in the laminations is horizontal.
>
> Not if you use rotary cut maple, which you most likely would if you were 
> making lots of vertically laminated bridges. Again, it won't make any
real 
> difference either way.
>
> Ron N