Gluing a plastic bridge

by Robert Filippi

Oct 29, 2008

I have a customer with a Takamine GS330S. The bridge is lifting up and is made of plastic.
What type of adhesive do I use to reattach this to its cedar top?
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    Jim Bancroft

    The molded plastic bridges on the 60's Gibson's were just bolted on, no glue.

    I'm assuming this had a flat bottom on the bridge, if so, I'd take a saw blade and scrape some slight ridges into the bridge bottom, roughening it some, and glue it on with either hot hide glue or tite bond wood glue.

    Jim
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    Oct 29, 2008

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      Ronnie Nichols

      Do him a favor and install a wooden bridge on it. I've seen some of the old Gibsons with plastic bridges. They didn't work out too well. Plastic is a good material for a lot of applications but I'm not sure it is the best for an acoustic guitar bridge.
      Ronnie Nichols
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      Oct 30, 2008