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Can you make a paper/card template, then draw an outline drawing scan it in, use a trace function on a cad or graphics program, make sure it is scaled correctly and send to the make, easy.... or not if you don't have the software
I'll try the software thing but I don't really have anything that does that, they might have differing at work though.
Safe to say if I could have my time again I wouldn't bother doing a kit at all but it was a gift so I have to finish and use it now
Take a cylinder, piece of copper pipe or similar that has a bigger diameter than the bridge post in the body, place it over the post and put a washer over the top then your bridge bolt through the cylinder into the post bushing and simply sceew the bolt clockwise, the bolt stays where it is and the bushing draws up out of the body.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
Like this
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
quitter
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
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A cotton reel?
Water bottle top?
Pritt stick lid?
Use your imagination, I did it with a sander vacuum attachment cut down to size with a washer on top.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
Plenty of padding under the head of the hammer (an old tea towel) and used the very end of the claw.Worked a treat.This is before I'd heard of the method described above and yes,I now realise it's totally the wrong way to go about it
Brutal!
Love it.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
Then you get the ones where nothing but brute force will do. Usually because some git epoxied them in. Usually I heat the difficult ones with the soldering iron before trying the above methods again... But the claw hammer has still been known to be called upon when all else fails. And I have only cracked one body in the last 15 years.
9 times out of 10 its a piece of piss though
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This is the best way for me. Took the bridge off my Epiphone without a mark. Drop a screw or thin piece of metal in the bushing and screw the bridge screw in. It will pull it out of the bosy enough to be able to grab it safely with a pliers or your hand and get it out.
As Sarge said lots of stuff will do. This happens to be a Ford Mustang roll-bar bush and a bit off an dismembered exercise bike, just stuff from the stash of tat that might be useful one day-
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/lp/pulled_bush_2.jpg
A trip to homebase or the like will snag bolts for pennies, M4, M6 and M8 should fit about anything metric. You could grab a round file as well and hog out that p/g hole a bit. It might be a bit oversize when done but won't notice much when the bridge is over it, doesn't look like there's more than a couple of mil to shave out.
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