Re: Should I learn to make bridges while I'm at it?
Many experienced voices have contributed to this thread already. Since I'm a novice for sure, for new instruments I'd advocate buying bridges over making them. Cumberland bridges are obviously excellent, and Bruce Weber at Montana Lutherie also offers his bridges and they're great too. Doubtless there are others of similar good quality available.
The Weber and CA bridges are great, worth the $ and saving of time in my (novice) opinion. I think it's tough for someone starting out (with a small shop maybe?) to make precision parts like these at the same consistently high level of workmanship available from CA, ML and others. Of course that's not to say it wouldn't be valuable to learn to do so, but that effort could develop into quite a detour from the main goal of making instruments.
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