Remember this one?
Well, this was the second in the series of (failed) repairs initially undertaken during the jinxed period of July to October. It came in about a month ago for me to take off the bridge and try and reglue it.
And as you can imagine, taking a bridge off is generally a very destructive process.
It takes off material from the bridge footprint (the top) which needs to be replaced.
I did that and clamped the repair with a block of wood to keep the filling flat.
Of course, I put in some butter paper between the wet surface and the block of wood meant to flatten it out, otherwise, there would have been a lot more filling than was required!!
After two days, the clamps were taken off. In the meantime, I had been busy with the bridge, cleaning it.
The cleaned bridge and its repaired footprint were now ready to be put together – hopefully never to come apart again.
Both were adequately painted with glue and the two parts were brought together and clamped.
I think for 4 – 5 days I did not look in the direction of the guitar, and just let it lie.
After that it was the regular process of threading the piezo element back through its hole in the bridge, under the saddle, and stringing up the guitar.
After stringing it up, the guitar was again left standing for a couple of days, after which it was sent home as healed!
