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Author:  000lover [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Bridge plate stock
I have on the left a piece of maple from stewmac and on the right maple from LMI. The stewmac, as you can see, back sawn and the one on the right is quarter sawn. What is the preferred choice of the professional luthier?

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Author:  Christian Schmid [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bridge plate stock
rift-sawn :mrgreen:
Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bridge plate stock
Actually the one from SM is riff sawn or at least every one i have ever recived from them. (look at theend grain to tell) it is an angle closer to flat than LMIs but I suspect that LMIs is also riff sawn just at an angle closer to quarter that the SM
Author:  000lover [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bridge plate stock
You are probably correct. I can tell that the end grain on the right one are riff sawn also. The one on the right's grain is much straighter. Which would you use?
Author:  000lover [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bridge plate stock
If you had to pick, which one? Left or right?
Author:  JohnAbercrombie [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bridge plate stock
000lover wrote:
If you had to pick, which one? Left or right?


What are you using them for?
Author:  000lover [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bridge plate stock
bridge plate
Author:  Jon L. Nixon [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bridge plate stock
Because of the stresses imposed by the strings, a quartersawn bridgeplate will tend to crack along a grain line. A riftsawn plate is less likely to do so, at least in theory.
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