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Osage Orange, Maple, Honduran Rosewood and Braz a couple times. Rift sawn, with the grain parallel to the bass X brace. I've never seen a reason to use a laminated bridge plate. That area is already a 3 play lamination. Bridge/Top/Bridge Plate. I'm sure builders using super thin Somogyi style tops have different requirments for bridge plates. The biggest bridge plate I've ever used was 1 3/4" wide, and they're usually somewhat smaller than that. Perhaps laminates are better for big bridge plates.

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excellant answer, John. That's exactly what I'm going to use.

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