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Your cart is empty.The JLD Bridge Doctor Enhances volume Flattens 'bellied' soundboards A unique solution to a common bridge problem, this spruce device attaches beneath a guitar bridge. An adjustable spruce "pressure post" rests against the tailblock, providing leverage to flatten the soundboard. The spruce block is 3/4" x 1-5/8" x 3-3/8" tall. The 1/4"-diameter tension rod is 9" long. The mounting post has three different positions to accomodate a variety of bridge styles. Screw mount version: This spruce device attaches beneath the bridge via an inlaid screw (a white pearloid dot is included to hide the bridge screw). An adjustable spruce pressure post rests against the tailblock, providing leverage to flatten the soundboard. Better bridge contact and alignment can also enhance sound projection. NOTE: This tool requires a hole to be drilled through the bridge behind the pin holes. StewMac Tech Tip: We recommend the brass pin mount version (sold separately) for 12-string guitars. Installation instructions included.
Dan M.
Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2025
I needed a bridge doctor in a hurry for a customer's guitar, so I bit the bullet & paid $75.00 CDN.$40.50 CDN from Stewart McDonald. Even with shipping, that's a big difference.Also... in many cases the included bridge pins will be useless. If you need a bridge doctor, odds are that the saddle has already been lowered as far as it can go. The bridge pin holes have also probably been ramped to achieve a decent break angle where the strings go over the saddle.If you have a nice high saddle, these pins should work ok. Otherwise, they'll just end up as clutter in a drawer in your shop.
Steve m.
Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2024
These are excellent devices for taking out the bellying on guitars, but this one arrived broken.
Steve O.
Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2024
Okay so for the record, my acoustic needs a full bridge repair as it is starting to pull up. I just have one guitar (I'm a recreational guitarist and do not play professionally) so to send it out for repair would mean having nothing at home to play in the interim, and I fear that while it is still very much playable and stayed in tune, I would receive a report during the repair process that it cannot be fixed and has to permanently become wall art. I purchased the guitar in 2012 when my Oma passed away and I received a small inheritance from her, so the guitar has very special meaning to me and I don't want to have to give up playing it which is why I got the Bridge Doctor.A friend told me about the Bridge Doctor and I decided to give it a try. I waited until I had to replace the strings to install the kit. The instructions were easy to understand and it was a fairly straightforward process.It didn't completely settle the bridge issue on my acoustic, but it definitely pulled it back down significantly and has given me new hope that this guitar which has so many wonderful memories behind it will be playing for many more years.
david baxter
Reviewed in Canada on March 19, 2024
Package arrived in good condition. then during the job of installing found that the tension rod would not pass through the system block do to badly aligned nylon inserts Rather than sending it back I did some work with my dremel rotary tool. got the tension rod to pass through the system block and installed. Rather upsetting after all the good reviews i read.
jim
Reviewed in Canada on February 26, 2024
I have bout two of these and now the are 65.00 dollars, good product but over priced again
John Wray
Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2023
It fixed my bellied guitar fast quick and easy
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on December 14, 2021
Might need to shorten the dowel a little bit to make it line up. Be careful not let the dowel lean on your input Jack if you have one in the strap button position.Make yourself a template before you install it and if you ever need another it takes 10 minutes to make one.
photofan
Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2019
Works good but not worth over $100,-. Many times overpriced, it's worth no more then $15-.
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