Glueing, clamping and bolting a Lowden Sheeran 'Equals' Bridge
This video (taken at home) shows me re-attaching, glueing and clamping Paul's Lowden Ed Sheeran 'Equals' bridge. This has been a slow, careful process to get the bridge and guitar read for re-attaching. I'm using Titebond Red and I've replaced and re-fitted the machine bolts and threaded inserts (after having drilled out the originals). Why did I end up having to drill out the originals? Because I mistook them for rivets (doh) - not helped by my inability to find any information online referring specifically to those bridges. The reason that I've sanded the top back is because whatever glue Lowden used stained the wood of the top brown / black. I used some Oxalic Acid to lighten as much as I could but in the end I decided against a 'local' repair to the top finish. Easier to go the whole hog - and far more uniform in terms of how the finish will end up looking. I've got Morrell's water-based satin poly for this job. Next step I'll unclamp the bridge (after 24hrs) and string the guitar up to make sure that it holds as it should. If - for some reason - it won't hold, then the final resort I have is to go to a 2-pack resin. If it does hold well, then I'll go on to spraying the satin finish with my HVLP gun system.

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