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Who makes custom bridges?
JDRooke
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Any suggestions? I'm, in particular, interested who makes them this side of the pond.
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Which side of what pond?
I could build a bridge across the pond for you!
Er.. referring to the body of water between NYC and Europe.
I guessed it would have been one of the world's larger 'ponds', but it still doesn't say which side you are on.....
I am located on the NYC side of that large puddle. But, it seems that so far it doesn't matter what side I live on. There appears to be a rather limited pool of custom bridge makers. So, far I have accumulated a reference to an unnamed bridge maker who did a botch job.
How about Craig Bumgarner? He makes the guitars, including bridges I'm sure.
Try getting in touch with Rodrigo Shopis via FB.
Thanks for both of those. I think you are on the money.
If you want someone to not only make you a new bridge but dial it in for your guitar they'll need the guitar in front of them to do the top fitting, string spacing and so on. Rodrigo is in NYC.
NYC ok, re the pedantic geography questions, I was just yanking your chain.
But as for the aforementioned 'botch job' that was just one person's experience, and if I am right in guessing who he was referring to I have had only good experiences with that person, but as he never named him we can ignore that comment anyway.
As Buco says, if you want it done right the luthier in question should have access to the guitar too.
My atlernative suggestion, at least for anyone with basic woodworking skills is to try making your own. The standard shape is not hard to achieve if you can find some suitable rosewood or ebony blanks, the length and width of the feet are variable but you will need to know where the braces are, and next there are various ideas abot how much (or little) you need to hollow out underneath. There have been many previous posts on here about how best to sand the feet to match the surface of the top. Only once you have this side decided can you then adjust the height and obviously the slots for string spacing can be marked out. Search the forum box on the right for bridge making and adjusting questions.
I know I am making it sound simple, but given the cost of the basic materials and the tools required it is fairly easy to have ago and while you are at it make a few, tweaking this and that until you get what you want.
Then again, I have always been an experimenter and tinkerer but maybe Mr Shopis can get it in one.
Good luck !