Dupont bridge heights

wim

http://www.djangobooks.com/Item/dupont-bridge

^ it comes in heights 16.5mm, 17.5mm, 19mm, 20.5mm, 22mm. How is the height measured? From where to where? Because, the top is curved ..

Buco

here's where it was asked before:
http://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/6501/
I'd just go with the closest to low E height and lower the bridge as needed while fitting to the top.
Check with Caravan if they have bridges made by Dan Hunt in stock.
I got one few years ago and love it, rings so nice when tapped by itself.

Matteo

Same type of question; for guitars sold here the action is specified as one measurement. I have just assumed that it's the height of the high e string over the 12th fret. Is that correct?

Nejc

One more thing.. How much is gonna a different bridge height mess up the rest of the guitar setup? Sometime ago I wanted to order a custom bridge for my guitar but I backed off because I was affraid that a lower bridge would cause neck problems..

AndrewUlle

Nejc:
A much lower bridge may affect your intonation, so you may have to move the bridge slightly closer to the neck, but it can't / won't "mess up" anything. Lower action could lower your volume, too, and if you lower it too much, you could get fret buzz.

Gouch

(5 years later…referring to my scrawled notebook:)

A few years back I bought a Dupont bridge and measured it with a micrometer, with the base sitting on a flat machinist’s stone. The high spot was toward the center of the bridge, and it was super-close to the as-spec’d 19mm. It wasn’t totally flat across the bridge top, it had a built-in taper. That was what I wanted- it gave me a little leeway to finesse the action. I didn’t expect, and probably nobody should expect, a perfect adjustment-free fit with a new bridge (especially on a non-Dupont instrument).

That said, I actually don’t know what the Dupont replacement bridge factory numbers are supposed to measure (hi E? bridge peak?).