Bridge Adjustment on New Bass

[Matthew Tucker]

Originally Posted by Calvin Marks

My question is: Should the contour of the end of the fingerboard match the curvature of the top of the bridge?

No, the shape of the top of the bridge is determined significantly by the curvature of the fingerboard.

To give your bow clearance so that you can easily bow one string at a time the bridge needs to be quite highly arched.

But if your fingerboard is too flat, then shaping the top of the bridge nice and high in the middle to help your bowing won't help, because your A and D strings will be way off the fingerboard and hard to play.

So yes. What Pino (and Ken) said. Start with a FB shaping.