Creating an acoustic guitar bridge

[difalkner]

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.

David

Here's the finished bridge -

 

And here's a video of the entire process -

 

[p_toad]

I'm sure someone already asked...but are those bits in your CNC HSS, carbide, or ???   Thanks for the video. 

[difalkner]

2 minutes ago, p_toad said:

I'm sure someone already asked...but are those bits in your CNC HSS, carbide, or ???   Thanks for the video. 

Carbide. I don't think I have any HSS bits, come to think of it...

 

David

[p_toad]

Just now, difalkner said:

Carbide. I don't think I have any HSS bits, come to think of it...

 

David

Got it.   Thanks!

[difalkner]

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 -

 

David

[MEBCWD]

Okay make a bigger guitar for the old bridge.

 

Really like the profile and your solution to the problem.  Great pictures as always.

 

David you could add embellishments to the sides like little flowers, dragons heads or furniture flourishes, V-carved or 3D to make it one of a kind.  V-carved would reduce the weight a little but the 3D would add to the weight but also the look.

Edited August 6, 2017 by MEBCWD