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Originally Posted by Otterhound
......With a pinless bridge as I am doing it , there is no upward force to the rear of the saddle on the bridge as is with pins . Since the conventional pins are anchored in the bridge , the strings , from below are leveraging the bridge upwards and away from the top wood .
As I am doing it , the upward force is transmitted through the top towards the bottom of the bridge , but not pulling upwards on the bridge itself . Thus , torque on the bridge itself in greatly minimized and nearly eliminated or , in the least , balanced . .........
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See my previous post. In pin bridges, the string forces do not push the bridge up as long as you have a functioning bridge plate.
Pinless bridges only have glue shear and tensile strength to resist string forces unless they changed statics principles that I studied 47 years ago.