Archtop Guitar: Bridge

In keeping with the theme of this project, which is to make use of nondescript pieces of wood cluttering up the workshop, the bridge I'll fit to this instrument will be fabricated from a highly figured and seriously dense chunk of red gum ( Eucalyptus camaldulensis ) that I wrenched out of our firewood delivery man's hands a few years ago. "I'm not burning that ", I told him! The wood's dramatic…