Bridge plate repair
The hardwood bridge plate of an acoustic instrument serves to protect the soft wood of the soundboard from being damaged by string ball ends. Over time the plate will begin to wear, leading to the ball end of the string pulling further through the plate and in extreme cases damaging the soundboard itself. Once the strings have begun to pull through the bridge plate, the proximity of the reinforced section of the end of the string to the saddle can also begin to cause tuning issues.
Repairs to bridge plates can be carried out neatly and efficiently without the need to carry out the removal and replacement of the plate itself. Plugging and re-drilling the bridge plate is an inexpensive and effective repair which provides decades of further protection against wear and tear.
Pin hole repair
Another area of the bridge subject to wear and tear are the bridge pin holes. Over time grooves worn into the pin holes along with over zealous or inaccurate pin hole taper, can cause the pins to no longer be able to hold the string effectively in place. Repairs are due to their location all but invisible and long lasting. The correct taper can then be re-cut for the pin holes and the pins if worn can be replaced.
Bridge shave
If there is sufficient height on the bridge and a need to expose more of the saddle then a bridge shave can be carried out in order to allow us to then reduce overall action height. The bridge would then be re-shaped, sanded and either polished or re-lacquered as required.
Intanoated saddle
Few acoustic players are so demanding of their tuning in the higher registers that they require perfect intonation. However, when absolute tuning further up the neck is crucial a fully intonated saddle is unavoidable.
The process of cutting the intonation is long and a little tedious but the re-carving of the saddle around the intonation points is very satisfying indeed.
Before beginning the process we require that the player is settled on the action, strings and tuning they wish to use. Any alteration to these variables will mean a change to the intonation point of each of the strings.
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