Bridge cap materials

[David Andersen]

>Sounds very interesting. Thank you for the explanation. Let me restate my 
>understanding just to be sure. You take a quarter-sawn hunk of bridge cap 
>material from either the supply house or a lumber yard and resaw it on a 
>plane parallel with the soundboard (you know what I mean - the way the cap 
>wood would be sitting on the bridge/board). Then you basically re-assemble 
>the same piece of wood only skewing the laminations on 10° angles. So you 
>end up with your same piece of quarter-sawn maple only now you have the 
>grain crossing at 10° angles from layer to layer (I hope that makes sense).
>
>Can I assume that with this process you end up with a lot of wasted wood? 
>How do you clamp your laminations? I should think the assembly would be 
>too wide for your pneumatic clamps. Do you just use a whole bunch of 
>clamps closely spaced?
>
>Then you mention rotary cut maple. Now how would you go about making a 
>high quality cap out of that?
>
>Terry Farrell

There's a good discussion about bridgecaps at Ron Over's website:
http://overspianos.com.au/

David A.