I looked at the bridge on the Cromwell in Jake's blog (which I follow regularly), and was struck by two things. It's as wide as it is because the screws that support the saddle are offset to create the compensation angle, and the saddle topper has no compensation built in (except for the ramp to compensate the B string that Jake always puts in everything). That is a unique and distinct configuration, and I would personally make a bridge to duplicate that if I owned the OP's vintage Cromwell. I normally have other ideas about the right way to do an archtop bridge, but in this case I would go the distance for as close to original as I could get.
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Brian Evans
Around 15 archtops, electrics, resonators, a lap steel, a uke, a mandolin, some I made, some I bought, some kinda showed up and wouldn't leave. Tatamagouche Nova Scotia.
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