Hello Phil, ============ Phil Ford wrote: 2. Isolating the downbearing. I think we both believe that this load by itself is not enough to damage a hard maple cap. But I wonder if there's some mechanism involving the notch edge and angled pin that would cause the downbearing to indent the cap. Or if I'm assuming too large a bearing area and that the effective bearing area resisting downbearing is small enough that the cap would be indented. A simple experiment might demonstrate whether my belief is true or false. ================ Isn't the bridge cap normally angled so as to assure better string contact at the speaking length notch? (In other words, the edge of the bridge cap that faces the speaking length is higher than the edge facing the back scale.) Because of that, the pressure may be more concentrated at the speaking side notch. Vladan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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