Hi.
So, I did my first couple of bride reglues recently.
one of them was on an acoustic flattop steel string guitar. After I removed it, cleaned it up, and reglued it, I could not get the bridge pins properly in.
I thought it was that the bridge had shifted slightly, which it had. So, I removed it again, cleaned up, and got it aligned correctly with bridge locating pins and bridge bolts.
Then - when the glue was dry, and ready for setting it up and inserting the bridge pins, the holes seemed to be to tight. After thinking about it, I found that it was glue in the holes that was the cause. I used a cheap reamer and needle files and got the bridge pins seated correctly. So the question is - is this normal? I would think so, but I have not done this so many times.
Also, before removing the bridge, I scribed around the bridge (as Dan Erlewine does in his bridge repair dvd's). This leaves a small scribed line afterward, that is almost not visible. But only almost.
What is common procedure here - to touch it up with some laquer, or just leave it be?
This guitar in particular was a sunburst guitar, so to do a touchup probably would mean quite a bit of a laquering/touchup job to get it good looking again. Since it was my daughters guitar(one I go really cheap), I decided not to do anything on it.
These things are probably very obvious when you have done this for many times
But, I really learned something here, and it was really rewarding to finally get to do a real bridge re-glue, and have it working good afterwards
best regards,
Tim