How to Remove a Guitar Bridge

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Part of the video series: How to Wax a Guitar

Summary: Some guitar bridges come off the body easily and are only held down by the strings. Disassemble, refurbish and reassemble any guitar like a pro with tips from an experienced guitar technician in this free video clip.

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By Benjamin Hehn
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Benjamin Hehn has lived most of his life in Northbridge, Massachusetts near the site of a Native American massacre that took place near his house. He spent much of his childhood...read more

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"Now we're going to talk about how we take the guitar bridge off. Now in a hollow body electric guitar, as I said before, this is all hollow underneath. Therefore, there's relatively nothing besides electronics. Well there's absolutely nothing besides electronics embedded under the top of the guitar. And that's including our bridge. Our bridge is resting on top of the guitar. Now you might think that that makes it very easy to take off, but what you have to keep in mind is regardless of the ease of taking off the bridge, you have to remember exactly where it was. Now on my guitar, since someone tried to refinish the top, there's a slightly different tone of wood underneath my bridge. But most guitars are not going to have that. So what we need to do is we need to take our painter's tape again. Make sure that we're not going to ruin the integrity of our guitar. And we're just going to put it right underneath, just like that. Just as so. Then we're going to take it off. And what I'm going to do now is slightly unorthodox, but we want to remember exactly where it is. So I don't want to put this exactly on the guitar itself, but whiteout comes off very easily when it dries, so I'm just going to put a little dab in two spots. Then we're going to know, when we take the tape off, exactly where to put our bridge when we reassemble our guitar."