I already did this twice by myself, on a full sized violin and a 1/2 violin. It takes some time and patience, but it's definitely doable by anyone with opposable thumbs.
thank you for the video it is very helpful! Could you tel me please how the distance between the "ears" influence the sound? i have a problem with the a strimg on my viola and mabye it could help me. 2 luthiers in my region could mot solve it...so i made a bridge my self...and its better :-)
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I followed the video step by step to fit a cheap bridge. I used a sharp exacto knife, a 80 and 100 grit sandpaper and a bridge template I found online. For being my first time it turned out quite decent. I need a sharper knife to try it again on a more expensive bridge.
At first I was put off by the video with no audio. Then I watched everyone else in youtube land do hatchet-jobs on the bridge. So, I came back to this one, and Wow... the visual is all I needed, audio not necessary. This guy really knows his stuff! James, I hope you do one on re-planning the fingerboard. That would be great!
Very impressive! Do you have any measurements you can share with us? If not, cool. Thanks to you, I fit a violin bridge just now for a violin I am giving away as a gift to a friend's young daughter, and your help saved me god knows what a pro would have charged. Luckily, I have experience on working on acoustic guitars and was able to use a lot of that knowledge in working this bridge. BUT, I could not have done it without your valuable video :)
I've already done some adjustments on my bridge just knowing a little on how my guitar should be set, thank you for that extra insight, may peace be unto you and to your family.
This is wonderful! But in reality unless you have trained very extensively to get that amazingly sharp knife, know how much to take off, and know how to fit nearly a perfect 90 degree angle while fixing both feet simultaneously, and trust your hands to give you a good base, then it will not turn out how nice it does! Fitting these things by hand takes dozens of bridge templates to learn, maybe hundreds for perfection! I’ve used a similar method for soundpost fitting, yet that is even more finicky than the fitting here since you have height to consider in extremely small margins of error. Nevertheless, a real master makes his art look easy, and it certainly looks like it here.
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Excellent video, your attention to detail is inspiring. I especially liked the scribe tool you used to mark the initial heights of the g and e strings. Marking the feet with colourant is an excellent tip as well. Thank you.
What kind of varnish do you use to check feets leveling, also I'd like to know the glue used at the end? Thank you Sir, you do amazing works, I'm following, keep posting.
One other way to adjust the feet of the bridge is by putting a piece of sandpaper on the violin and carefully running the bridge back and forth over the sandpaper until the feet are flush with the violin
Hi James. I do this type of work for a small business that does rentals. I'd love to know what type of knives and chisels you use in this video and where to buy them. Thanks!
Parchment paper is typically used under the string to prevent the string from cutting into the bridge with tuning. He's using the compass to find his center point and then from there he's measuring the distance between each string for where he should cut the string notches - Utah Luthier
Hello. For a full sized violin a common spacing from the G to E is about 34 mm. You can find the location of the other two strings by dividing that by 3 (11.33 mm).
I just sat back down after dinner to find this auto-playing and was thinking "oh wow, this has a really awesome backing track!" Then I realized it was Boards of Canada playing on a different tab. I knew something was up...
You use two tools, one is a ros with a nail at the end to mark two sighns on the bridge on both side of it and the other tool is a some preshaped form which you use to mark the full edge shape on the bridge. How did you make these tools ?
