Recent content by martincl

Thanks for all your help and detailed instructions. I have taken a look at frets.com and, like you, that guy can do anything with a stringed instrument. All the help and suggestions that I have received on this forum are greatly appreciated and the wealth of knowledge is amazing.

Thanks. I think that I am going to have to read that a few times to visualize the instructions.

Thanks again everyone for all the help, advice and site recommendations (frets.com etc). The guitar is entry level and appears to be ladder braced. When I run a straight edge along it at various positions it would appear that, whilst the area to the back of the bridge has definitely deformed...

I do have a measurement for the position of the saddle, but I was hoping to get a bridge that was the same dimensions as the original with the same location of the saddle and use the original bridge positioning. I did not realise that it had to be absolutely perfect.

THANKYOU all for your tips, recommendations and advice. What a fantastic forum. I will proceed with the repair and, as seems to be the first task, try to find a clamping solution to sort out the bowing, then the gluing. As I said, the guitar is not an expensive one, so passing it to a luthier...

Thanks profchris The bridge is, I am afraid, gone. I could not get heat to pass through it very well, so I used a multi-tool to cut away the section that holds the saddle in order to get better heat transfer to try and melt the glue. A lack of forethought on my part. What I cannot convey with...

Background: The guitar is about 40 years old. Brand: Almeria (made in Spain). Style: Classical/flamenco. Current cost new: about £150 (so budget level). My wife has just picked up her old guitar from her parents’ house with the view of trying to play again. However, in the interim, one of her...