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Originally Posted by TomB'sox
Your top bracing is very different with the wider/lower profile braces. Can you share your thoughts with this?
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Hey Tom! Yes, the flatter support braces - they are actually being used by more and more luthiers. It's the way I learned and from what I can tell it adds a bit more flexibility in that area of the top between the X-brace and the frame. The rigidity of a tall brace isn't really necessary in that area so it only makes sense. The way my bridge is shaped the ends of it follow the X-brace pretty closely and don't have any corners cantilevering over the X-brace however I still favour the positioning of those flat braces to support the area just across the X-brace from the ends of the bridge... hope that makes sense, if not I can clarify, but that is my understanding of it and why it works.
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