Setting the bearing with a specially built router and custom bit.
Measuring the bearing to exact tolerances
Planing the bridges to the bearing marks
Drilling the holes for the bridge pins
Notching the new bridge caps. The new bridge cap is made from Canadian hard maple, seasoned and dried. We use rift sawn lumber for this, a finer quality of quarter sawn lumber that is very costly and difficult to find.
Final fitting of bridges to plate. Note the Mason and Hamlin in the background with the soundboard being glued in.