Ron is quite right; it's a huge amount of work for an "improvement" that will be inaudible. We do it with new design because we can do it easily--the NC machine doesn't care where it drills or what size hole it's drilling--and agrafes makes a great selling feature. But at a practical level no one--musician, tuner or string winder--is going to notice any difference. ddf So I take it that it is best to copy the bevel rather than plan on notching the new bass bridge? Looking more carefully at the existing bass strings, the maker did a good job with getting the same amount of winding on each bi-chord string as well as relatively equal exposed cores at both ends. Gene
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