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Okay, I've got a similar question. I wanted to buy a balalaika while I'm in Russia where I work now, bring it home to Belgium, and I was planning for next year to buy this house in Greece and spend the holidays there. So, it would mean bringing the violin from a continental hot dry summer/cold winte...

I never built a guitar using that, but I've bought and used different instruments (standard and bass guitars) with a fiberglass reinforced bridge. It does work and sound fine, and I haven't heard a noticeable difference compared to instruments of the same price and quality range with a wooden bridge...

Well that's fascinating, I always love to see how x wood reacts to treatment y. Does anyone know if that's actually usable for musical instruments? I know that some of my relatives have made furniture out of apple tree wood, but well, in the countryside, there are 2 kinds of wood, the one that's sui...

Yeah, Koa is quite sensitive, I've had this issue when working on a small jewelry box made of that for my wife...But if you (or the workshop) is using a new sheet of sandpaper, it won't be an issue: you don't seem to want to remove much, so it won't be enough to dull the paper.

It's true that the bridge does make a difference: the slightest half-of-a-millimeter change will radically change the behavior of the entire string, how it can vibrate, how long... I remember having the bridge changed on my first guitar, and the cheap trainer instrument I had started to sound like a...