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  Greg March 8, 2010 at 12:47pm

  Here's my fender rip off idea. The strings stay straight all the way thru the bridge. The springs (I know one's missing. It fell to the floor and is lost forever) are humbucker adjusting springs.
  

  
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  Andy February 12, 2010 at 11:46pm

  Great looking prototype, the different views really shows what you are thinking about.
  A picture is worth a thousand words.
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  Andy February 12, 2010 at 11:45pm

  Great looking prototype, the different views really shows what you are thinking about.
  A picture is worth a thousand words.
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  Randy Webb February 12, 2010 at 11:37pm

  Looking at it next to my Les Paul style bridges and my fender bridges, it's less than any of them right now. Once I get in the shop tomorrow, I'm gonna play with ways to do it on just the nut.
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  Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates February 12, 2010 at 11:25pm

  only thing I can see is you might put stress on the strings at the bend. Might cause excessive breakage.
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  Randy Webb February 12, 2010 at 9:42pm

  Now that ive done this and seen the angles, I think it might work with just the nuts as in my first drawing.
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  Steve Becker February 12, 2010 at 9:39pm

  Creative idea, Randy. Gets the gears in my own head turning. I'll have to go to the hardware store and do some brainstorming.
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  Randy Webb February 12, 2010 at 9:15pm

  This is a crappy 5 min mock up with many quality issues, but i am convinced after building it that it will work.
  

  

  

  
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  Josh February 12, 2010 at 4:56pm

  Have you thought about using square nuts for the saddles instead? Those small hex nuts I would think might possibly roll... Although the string tension would probably prevent that from happening (now that I think about it)
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  MichaelS Country Boy Guitars February 12, 2010 at 4:44pm

  "Make it don't buy it" should be the CBG motto. Can's wait to see the finished product, looks to me like it will work fine.