Making an ebony bridge for Martin Taylor’s guitar

Jul 6, 2009 @ 11:36

Back in my comfort zone after making the celtic knots in the last part – can’t wait to see what it looks and sounds like.

The old bridge had a pieze pickup under the saddle which Martin wanted to have removed and replaced with an all ebony one. I decided to keep the base of the old one as it was already made from ebony and there was nothing wrong with it. All I had to do was make a new saddle piece.

The blank was roughly cut to size and then I used the old bridge to mark the mounting holes. After that the bridge was shaped and sanded to 1500g before finally being polished….