This is a practice bridge out of Walnut for the guitar I'm building. The actual bridge will be East Indian Rosewood but since I have a lot more Walnut than Rosewood I wanted to make certain my design would work so that lead to a practice bridge.
It's looking great, David. I guess nearly anything can be done on a CNC. I'm looking forward to the next video of you making the insert. Will you be using bone, Micarta, Tusq, or something similar? I used Tusq once, and was pretty happy with it.
Thanks, Jim! The saddles will be bone from Bob Colosi and I'll make them by hand. I've made a handful of saddles and nuts out of bone but have yet to use Tusq. I might try it soon, though.
Thanks, Bruce! Intonation and compensation isn't really any different from a single-piece saddle. It's just that the 'B' string can now be fully compensated. Measurement is generally from the nut to the 1st string (high 'E') plus a small amount to allow for string stretch during fretting. My Takamine has a two-piece saddle just like this and I have a guitar that I put a new top and bridge on in 1985 and it also has a two-piece saddle. I can use both of those for comparison and measurements to verify placement before gluing this one down.
Ok, I made another bridge, smaller this time. The first one is 32 grams and this one is 20 grams. This is the size I intended it to be but the first one was more about testing my CNC programs. This one is more about getting the size correct. Yes, I could have done this all in the same bridge but I like making them and I have a ton of small Walnut pieces on which to practice.
Here's the one I made this afternoon, on top of the first one (the leading edge is lined up and they are the same length - camera parallax factor comes into play) -
And here they are as a comparison; you can see how much smaller the one made today is -
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