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Hosco here too, not cheap but worth it, if you don’t like spending the whole afternoon cursing and swearing.

Yeah, I’ve learned the hard way not to do any routing when I’m not in the mood...

Maybe a lighter piece of wood, as part of a new project, would be the way to go. Or go with a cap, and really dig out the inside of the existing body!

It’s likely to do with copyright infringement. Sterling Ball is notoriously litigious. This is a nice project. I’m doing a similar one, and it’s interesting to compare and contrast with yours. My body is some kind of mahogany, and I’m waiting for a maple cap to arrive. I may chamber the body.

Bought a Hipshot bridge from Chris. Perfect transaction, perfect item for my needs. Thanks, Chris.

Lovely thing!

Yes, the first one was the initial purchase. Then the Hipshot example came up on this forum, so I decided to go for it. It has a longer throw, which might prove useful given my proven repeated tendency to mis-measure things by 10mm or 100mm. I came upon the top by chance on eBay, so it's bit of a punt, but it certainly looks nice in the pic. Looking forward to getting on with it!

I saw that. It's quite difficult to see details in the images of what he has on offer. David Dyke has nice stuff on his Instagram feed, luthiers_supplies.

Not much to report, because i'm waiting for this 5A book bookmatch maple cap to arrive from Croatia. It's 8mm thick, and I'm looking forward to jointing it and gluing up. Hopefully this will give a bit of bling, and solve some of the cosmetic problems associated with routing errors. I now have two bridges to choose from. I need to plan the chambering and control routs next.

Aye, it's the scraping it clean and neat that would put me off. Props for having a go! I might visit Reid's next time I'm in Glasgow.

Good work! Love the binding. Got any close up shots of it?

Yeah, it wasn’t just a drop in, but it wasn’t too difficult. I just really dislike the big OEM slab bridge plate!

I got the bridge from Retrovibe, via eBay.i think I’ve seen them on AliExpress too. As it came the new bridge had narrow saddles, which meant the string spacing was too narrow. I installed the correct width (20mm string spacing) saddles from the bridge that came with the SUB Ray 4. so that was fine. However, this meant that the big anchor studs were too close together to permit the new saddles to fit comfortably between them, so I had to laterally enlarge their mounting holes in the baseplate, so that I could move them further out from the centreline. This was a bit rough looking, but is well hidden by the massive studs. I carefully located the bridge on the body, and drilled the holes for the stud bases. The top part of each stud passes through the baseplate and screws into the base. There are three additional mounting screws at the rear of the bridge. Doesn't look bad at all, eh?

You flatter me, sir! But you should see it now, after another couple of months of lockdown...

And frequently used in Scotland to mean “untidy”.

...and I broke down and bought it. Now I’ve got TWO 20mm spacing bridges to play around with.

Brutal.

Wow, I like that.

The eBay one is five hundred quid. Tempting.

Lovely. There’s an identical one on eBay right now.

A sparky shedding light? Stew, you are a card and no mistake!

Thanks for that, Andy!

I for one would be very interested in seeing this!