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ernandez R -> RE: Bridge glueing methods (Aug. 23 2022 16:50:36)
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Nice setup, hard to go wrong with how you clamped that up.
I see your still in the white? I would have wiped a few coats of shellac around the perimeter to make cleanup easier.
I paste wax the edges of the already shellacked bridge
I do the squeeze out with sticks then damp paper towels before pulling the tape then pull the tape, then more cleanup with damp paper towels.
If you add an inch to your clamp feet you’ll have more space to cleanup but they will be more fiddly to set up.
I glue my bridges with epoxy, I’m vary famalure with it and I like the working time. I clean up with naphtha which doesn’t damage the shellac. Basically I pulled vacuum for about 60 seconds, pulled the frame off and cleaned up, put the frame back on and sucked her down. Ive only used it once so far but a did a few test runs with a scrap bridge on that granite plate to get my game on using just the A or B component un mixed epoxy. I glued short wood pins into the positioning holes in the top to prevent a vacuum leak.
I don’t currently have any but there is a product called ‘flash breaker tape’ that one would usually use around the edge of a glue up like the bridge just made for this and plan on having some before I do my next. Ive left a few slivers of blue and green crape tape in the edge of the bond line here and there on the first few guitars I’ve built
here is a link for the FB tape:
https://store.acpcomposites.com/flash-breaker-tape-blue
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