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Originally Posted by LouieAtienza
As long as you can cope one surface to another you can have absolutely no flat surfaces! Theoretically....
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True , Louie, ... but as far as heel mating surfaces are concerned, why would any rational human being even contemplate anything other than two plane surface contacts ? Assuming a tapered heel, that is ... a parallel heel is a different matter entirely.
I get Charles' observation about concavity on the underside of the fretboard extension ... eminently sensible ... but would nonetheless point out that violin techs take the most extreme care to ensure that the feet of a violin bridge match perfectly with the contours of the soundboard.