> Power notcher, Ron? Please elaborate. Pictures? I'm having some trouble > visualizing how to make this process more automated. > > William R. Monroe Something I built. Router powered small shaper cutter, timing belt driven at 6000 rpm or thereabout. Linear bearing slide, to pull the cutter into the bridge, and a pneumatic ram to clamp the bridge while the cut is being made. The silly thing actually worked the first time. Makes an amazing mess of chips very quickly. Being cautious, it took me about an hour for a set of bridges. I'll get some pictures and post them. This isn't something you can do in the piano, incidentally, but bridge-in-hand before it's glued on the board. Ron N
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