B. Howard wrote:
If you use epoxy please put a label inside stating this and leave your info so I can make sure it comes back to you for the next reglue! May as well use CA if your going to epoxy it and be don in 5 minutes instead of 24 hours....
I typically leave the layer of top wood on the bridge and as long as there is a haze of that spruce left on the center ply wood glue will work well and the wood grains lock right back together. Attention when removing these will help avoid this situation.... I typically charge extra for bridge re-sets on laminate tops for this reason.
I typically leave the layer of top wood on the bridge and as long as there is a haze of that spruce left on the center ply wood glue will work well and the wood grains lock right back together. Attention when removing these will help avoid this situation.... I typically charge extra for bridge re-sets on laminate tops for this reason.
Good to know Brian. To take into consideration the plywood top never occurred to me at the beginning. It will from now on that's for sure.
Well, I had "cleaned" up what I thought was mostly finish with some wood fiber attached to it, so there isn't a lot of the original wood fiber from the top layer left. It is very clean now though.
It did seem like maybe this bridge had been re-glued before, there were gobs of clear glue all over the bottom of the bridge, it looked like somebody ran a thin bead of clear silicone all over the bottom of the bridge. I don't like the idea of using epoxy, as I feel I'd rather not create any more of a situation that can't be undone. I'm having a hard time telling if the center wood is actually bare wood or if it still has glue from the lamination all over it. On a solid top guitar I'd just be gluing at this point...Any thoughts?