{"id":40,"date":"2007-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/30\/bridge-prototype\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T14:14:40","slug":"bridge-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2007\/12\/30\/bridge-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to create a prototype bridge today. The final design will require some tweaks for sure, but I think it will work. I have gone through a million ideas ranging from close to the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=9BYhAAAAEBAJ&amp;printsec=abstract&amp;zoom=4&amp;dq=stringed+instrument+tuner#PPA10,M1\">Ned Steinberger patent<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlansia.jp\/ATG.05.JPG\">Atlansia design<\/a>. I am not sure how Atlansia have solved fastening the string, but it might be similar to what I have done. Another thought entails using the Steinberger design but not lock the string, but route it through the body and using the tuner to pull the string in a &#8220;bow&#8221; shape. I am still thinking about that, but until then, here are some pictures of the progress so far:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0458-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0458-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0459-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 2\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0459-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0460-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 3\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0460-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 3\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0461-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 4\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0461-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0462-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 5\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0462-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 5\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0463-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 6\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0463-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0464-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 7\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0464-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 7\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0465-800x600.jpg\" title=\"Image 8\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thestrandbergs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/img_0465-800x600.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image 8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this is just a rough proof-of-concept. It has taught me several valuable lessons that will make the final product much easier to make. The knob will be knurled and the threads will be finer (this is M6x0,75) Next: find someone with good enough machines to work with stainless steel&#8230; And not charge an arm and a leg for it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to create a prototype bridge today. The final design will require some tweaks for sure, but I think it will work. I have gone through a million ideas ranging from close to the original Ned Steinberger patent to the Atlansia design. I am not sure how Atlansia have solved fastening the string, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}