Re: Radiused fretboard with straight bridge on a Kentucky
If the nut slots are of varying depths,then it will behave as a 'radiused' nut,so will the bridge slots. However - going back 10 years or so,i fitted a new CA bridge to my first good mandolin. The only CA bridge available to me over here had a straight saddle. I drew the radius of the existing saddle & the string spacings onto a piece of cardboard,& then using that as a template,i sanded the contour onto the new CA saddle. Having marked the string spacings onto the template,i just used a scalpel blade to re-cut the string slots. They only needed to be deep enough to keep the strings from moving,& it worked fine.
Doing that was far easier than cutting slots of varying depths,
Ivan
Ivan
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