The Hub

Well, I have exhausted all the internet can offer for options for a replacement bridge. The customer, long ago, removed a ton of material from the bottom(!!!!) of the bridge, and now that ive taken this guitar on as a restoration, its up to me to make a new bridge. I have found some ultra small pattern bits, and round-over bits to do the inside of the mustache flush, but I can not for the life of me decided how im going to cut the bulk…

The COE reviewed this bridge disaster in January, a Tanglewood acoustic given to me that had the bridge ripped off as well as some of the underlying top, and an attempted repair with spruce veneer (COE video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlpOIWQrAlw&t=2685s). The general opinion was to install a bigger bridge plate. However, once I removed the existing bridge plate, I found that the underlying repair had not been fully done,…