2021
AL#144 p.44
Mark French
▪ In this concluding episode of the series, the neck is fretted and the frets are filed and polished. Threaded inserts are installed in the heel and the neck is attached. Finally, the bridge is glued on, the nut is set in position, and the guitar is strung and set up.
2018
AL#133 p.71
Cyndy Burton
▪ Trouble with hide glue raising soundboard grain around a bridge.
2018
AL#133 p.71
James Buckland
▪ Trouble with hide glue raising soundboard grain around a bridge.
2017
AL#129 p.63
Rick Rubin
▪ Use that firm packing foam stuff to clamp a bridge on a flattop guitar. The foam can conform to small transducers that may be glued to the bridge plate.
1998
AL#55 p.62 BRB5 p.208
Frank-S. Hedi Gavin Baird
▪ It is customary to glue on the bridge after finish is done on the guitar for a far easier cleanup job.
1994
AL#39 p.10 BRB4 p.52
Bryan Galloup
▪ Here’s the whole story, with some tools for heat removal of the parts not seen in the magazine before. Pull those worn parts and make your own replacements. With 38 photos.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.
1993
AL#35 p.57 BRB3 p.498
Greg Descateaux
▪ Slight additions to Colin Kaminski’s description of how to build a hollow radius form in AL#33.
1987
AL#12 p.3 BRB1 p.459
Ralph Novak
▪ Novak offers tips on fretwork, tool sharpening, fitting bridge pins, recycling clogged sandpaper, and admonishes us to get steel wool out of our shops.
1986
AL#7 p.55 BRB1 p.431
Robert Doucet
▪ Doucet offers slick tricks for removing dried glue from raw wood, replacing spruce pulled up by the bridge, tracing braces to make clamping cauls, and roughing saddle blanks into shape.
1986
AL#7 p.56 BRB1 p.181
Sam Sherry
▪ Sherry claims his “bridge plate” style caul is a universal tool that makes bridge regluing easier.
1986
AL#6 p.46 BRB1 p.230
Dick Boak
▪ Boak shares a Martin company fixture used for gluing bridges on flattop guitars.
1986
AL#5 p.22 BRB1 p.168
Ken Donnell
▪ Donnell gives a thorough description of his methods of bridge removal and regluing. Both classical and steel string guitars are covered.
1973
GALNL Vol.1#2 p.3
H.E. Huttig
▪ Eight step process for the Spanish luthier bridge gluing method.