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Snakewood is just a bit heavier than cocobolo or some other rosewood. On a size of a bridge, I don't think the extra weight is so important... For the sound, maybe my arms would take 1 or 2 extra grams...

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Francis Richer, Montréal
Les Guitares F&M Guitars

Here are my three.

Brazilian RW

Cocobolo


Madagascan RW


The differences in the look of the finished bridges is much different than when unfinished. They looked very differenb before finishing, Now, they look similar.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Here is another way to deal with the weight of snake wood. I used epoxy to glue the snake wood saddle and tie block to the canary wood bridge. Total weight 17 gms. I have had the guitar strung to tension with high tension strings for about eight months. So far so good. I cut the slots for the strings like a nut block before i glued the tie block to the bridge.