Crooked bridge reglue

[djcarolino]

Recently had my bridge of J-45 reglued as there wasn’t some lifting near the corner of the bass side. However, I noticed it was reglued on slightly crooked about 1/16th of an inch when measured from both sides of the bridge to the lower bout. Surprisingly, there’s no intonation issues and the guitar still has a killer tone. The luthier who reglued it is offering to take another look at it however is it worth regluing it in the right spot? If I left it as is, would there be future issues down the road? Thanks in advance!!

[Goat Mick]

There shouldn't be any physical effects to the guitar with the bridge placed as it is. The big thing is how bad will it bother you to look at it?

[Dbone]

Exactly. There will be issues in your brain about it ;-o

Or perhaps I’m projecting. That would drive me bonkers. Lol

Good luck

[Brucebubs]

If one side of the re-glued bridge is now too high or too low I'm wondering how the bridge pin holes line up with the original existing holes in the top?

[mirwa]

Originally Posted by djcarolino

Recently had my bridge of J-45 reglued as there wasn’t some lifting near the corner of the bass side. However, I noticed it was reglued on slightly crooked about 1/16th of an inch when measured from both sides of the bridge to the lower bout.

Curious why you are measuring it to start with, was it looking odd

The lower bout for reference is a poor choice, measure it from the end of the fretboard.

Steve

[redir]

1/16th is certainly big enough to notice by eye but two good points were already made here, one, how did the bridge pin holes line up? and two, measure from the fretboard.

When I do a reglue I use two bolts in the pin holes to line it up exactly where it was previously. So it could be that it was always like that but now you are noticing it.

If it plays in tune then leave it.

[djcarolino]

I did notice some of the footprint of the original bridge position so decided to measure it out of curiosity. I re-measured the distance from the bridge to the fretboard and it also has about a 1/16th of an inch difference when comparing treble and bass sides.

[redir]

Well, that's not good if you can see the original foot print. Do you have pics? Get a strong light and a good mirror and look at the pin holes on the inside of the guitar. Take a pic too and post it here.

Is the exposed foot print forward on the sound hole side or behind it? IOW was the bridge nudged forward or back?

It's probably okay but it does mean that he re-drilled the pin holes larger in the area that was maladjusted.

In short though you should not have to go through this and if anything I would ask for a refund. I would worry about taking it back to the same person to get fixed right. Because that's not something that any reputable shop would put out without an explanation. If for example the bridge was misplaced at the factory then that might be acceptable. But now on top of bridge, bridge plate and pin hole repairs you are looking at finish work.

[Earl49]

Well THAT is a different approach to intonation -- move the whole bridge.