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Old 07-16-2019, 03:05 AM
jrodriguezcros jrodriguezcros is offline
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Default Loose bridge

This is a Martin 000-18 from 1971. I've had it for about 5 years now. Yesterday I noticed that the bridge is coming loose. Sorry the pic is not very good, but you can see a small gap below the bass side wing. It's less than 1/2 mm but if you put a piece of paper it goes in for about 5 mm. On the treble side there is a similar gap, but a lot smaller. The center of the bridge seems to be fine.

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I know the proper way to fix this is remove bridge and reglue, but being such a small gap, I wondered if I could get away with filling it with glue. Or is it not a good idea?

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Old 07-16-2019, 03:24 AM
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Wont hurt to add some glue and clamp, you may be lucky

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Old 07-16-2019, 04:25 AM
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Thanks Mirwa. That's what I thought, maybe the problem is that there is no glue in that area... and it might work.
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