<HTML>In a message dated 12/19/2002 10:38:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, sbellieu@mindspring.com writes:                       Steve <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">             I get it and Yes I meant .05 or 1/2 degree. The .05 in the tenor in the strung condition isn't bad if the board rises whent he strings come off. In this scenario reducing the bass bearing might distribute the overall bearing balance between the bass and tenor but to do that you'll have to recap the bass bridge at a lowere elevation and possibly cap the tenor at a higher one but all this is going to be relevant to the amount of crown availably. If the board really is flat it should'nt be carrying that much bearing any way IMHO.</BLOCKQUOTE>        Dale Erwin <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Dale Erwin wrote: Could you share how it is you're measuring 1.5 degrees of bearing on the bass and with what. If the rear string length was 8 inches( possible on a D) 8 Times .026=.208 or (1.5 degrees) of distance bearing . Considering this bass bridge has no cantilever  I don't mind seeing this at the top end of the bridge but I'd like to see .05 degrres in the mono section........................   Dale,  All measurements referred to so far were from the strung piano.  Individual strings were removed and thread/gap measurements were taken.  I was conservative in the bass and subtracted for the twisted part of the string riding on the hump.  Note # 3 showed 1.3 deg, note # 10 showed 1.7 deg, and note # 19 showed 1.3 deg.  Inverse tangent of (gap/rear length). Did you mean to write .5 deg in stead of .05 ?   Just for giggles I checked one of the previously measured tenor bridge strings in the middle of the overstrung section after the bass strings were off.  (The following day)  It came up from .06 deg to .5 deg.   </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>