> Have you provided details of your notching machine? If so I somehow > missed it. Not yet - I'll get there. > I still think bridge pins could use some attention. Something harder > and with a slippier interface with steel. Perhaps solid nickel, rather > than the nickel plated whatever that we have now. I don't know how this > would affect the tone or the string wear rate. > > Phil F Better material sure couldn't hurt, but stabilizing (petrifying) the cap to minimizing the vertical movement of the string on the pin will take care of a fair amount of pin wear. Illustration? Pull pins from an old bridge and compare front pins with back pins. Ron N
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