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I seem to remember a mate of mine making something very like this for O-level woodwork in about 1971 ...

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[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='836635' date='May 13 2010, 09:24 PM']Now that's a fine example of the luthier's art right there.

The bridge is something else.... it must be something else 'cos it's certainly not a f...ing bridge.[/quote]


the bridge is very similar to that on the *original* issue of the Gibson Les Paul, except that Gibson got the pitch angle on the set neck wrong, and the strings had to go UNDER the bridge crosspiece to get an action.

G.

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