Painlessly Pull a Bridge Pin

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