Aluminum angle nut and bridge
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:34 pm
I've been perusing this forum for a bit - great info all around! Really appreciate having a place for this kind of discussion.
I see a lot of people mentioning and posting photos of nuts made of aluminum angle, and also aluminum angle bridges. However I've seen almost no photos of lap steels with both nuts and bridges made of the material, only one or the other with the other piece generally being made of rod. I'm wondering if this is for aesthetic reasons or if there's a practical reason.
Here's what I've worked out so far for the design I'm going to built, based on an old Supro (ignore the bottom piece, without the measurements there it doesn't make a lot of sense). I'm planning on using aluminum angle for both the bridge and nut, with a string-thru below the nut. With wanting the strings to be parallel this seems like a logical choice to me, but I've been a little surprised to rarely see it. Thanks!
I see a lot of people mentioning and posting photos of nuts made of aluminum angle, and also aluminum angle bridges. However I've seen almost no photos of lap steels with both nuts and bridges made of the material, only one or the other with the other piece generally being made of rod. I'm wondering if this is for aesthetic reasons or if there's a practical reason.
Here's what I've worked out so far for the design I'm going to built, based on an old Supro (ignore the bottom piece, without the measurements there it doesn't make a lot of sense). I'm planning on using aluminum angle for both the bridge and nut, with a string-thru below the nut. With wanting the strings to be parallel this seems like a logical choice to me, but I've been a little surprised to rarely see it. Thanks!