Where to notch a bridge, & relative effects ????? ( Advice sought )

[Farrell]

I don't loose much sleep over string grooves either - I usually am 
installing new bridges with new epoxy-laminated caps!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> << > If you are not going to recap, then simply plane the top of the cap 
> down
> to
>>  the string imprint depth, >>
>
>     I can read this as saying to plane down to the very bit of string
> groove.  This doesn't reduce bearing if you leave the center of the old 
> string
> groove,  that is where the string was before!
>    I  don't worry about the string grooves in the caps as much as I do 
> about
> the definition of the notches.
>
> Ed Foote RPT