An easily alleviated frustration in changing guitar strings is pulling the reticent bridge-pin. There are a number of “bridge-pin” pullers on the market ranging in price from five to ten dollars. I haven’t tried these products so I can’t write about them.
I use is a simple pair of five-dollar wire cutters that can be found at any hardware store. Spread the jaws apart, slip them under the bridge-pin (Figure 1) and use them in as a lever (with the saddle as a fulcrum) to easily pry the bridge-pin up and out of the bridge (Figure 2.). Keep the wire cutters handy as you’ll need them to snip off the excess guitar strings after their installation.
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
Steve Beckwith has handcrafted over one hundred acoustic stringed instruments to address the need of musicians unable to find the exact sound from mass manufacturing instruments.
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