This violin still had on its original bridge from the 1980s, which had definitely come to the end of its useful life. If the process of preparing to fit a new bridge, I observed that the elevation of the violin had dropped a bit, meaning that I would have had to fit an unusually low bridge in order to achieve a good string height. However there were also some lumps and bumps in the fingerboard, so I realised that I would be able to correct the elevation with a slightly angled fingerboard reshoot before going on to fit the new bridge at the standard dimensions.