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All great improvements on a solid base design. You know Terry I can't remember the last time the asymmetrical Martin bridge radius came up on the OLF. I'm betting that you just sent a whole lot of people to take a closer look at their Martins and that's a very good thing.

Bottom line as Terry points out there are a whole lot of things that can go into a great bridge design that we may not even notice or be aware of.

Same thing plus I extended the belly about 0.1".

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Not sure if it is asymmetry in radius so much as a laterally offset center point for that bridge top radius. For through saddle designs, that forces a roughly 0.040" deeper slot depth at the treble side if one wishes an equal reveal of saddle into the bridge wings.

Gibson did something similar on their flat-topped bridges with some taper from bass to treble sides, while Taylor and others went with the easier-to-manufacture flat-top bridge and enough saddle setback to prevent saddle slot failure from the tipping loads.

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