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Originally Posted by John Arnold
Notwithstanding the inaccurate terminology, your logic is not sound.
That is not true. All you are doing by lowering the string exit point is increasing the string break angle across the saddle, which will result in more side force on the saddle. The 'leverage' you speak of (torque, actually) is created by the string height off the top. The only way to reduce this torque is to reduce string tension or lower the string height.
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Let me see if I have this correctly .
A string travels straight upward from a fixed point and is under tension .
At a point , that string changes direction . At the point that the string changes direction there are no forces in play .