tip for guitar bushing removal

cur · Post by **cur** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:57 pm

This might be of some interest if you have a broken ground or need to swap bushings for a different thread pattern. Sorry if it has been covered before.

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Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:20 pm

OH MY GOD SO MANY STEPS.

Screw post into bushing - pull straight up with pliers - DONE.

Last time I did this on my 335 I could pull 2 out with my bare hands and the other 2 with a pliers.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:58 pm

I spy TonePros - this dude LIKES steps.

Actually that's pretty inventive and on ones like my mustang that were fucking impossible to get out I'd consider...oh wait...no thread and no screwdriver slot. Damn Probably why someone gouged the grand canyon out of it getting them out the first time.

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:29 pm

Black Cat Bone wrote:I spy TonePros - this dude LIKES steps.

Actually that's pretty inventive and on ones like my mustang that were fucking impossible to get out I'd consider...oh wait...no thread and no screwdriver slot. Damn Probably why someone gouged the grand canyon out of it getting them out the first time.

The Mustang thimbles are also just that - thimbles. They're solid on the bottom, so his trick wouldn't work.

Also, all my tunomatic bushings have had solid bottoms as well.

wilrecar77 · Post by **wilrecar77** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:42 am

When i was converting my Ibanez from a floyd-rose to a strat hardtail bridge, i tried this. It just busted through the wood in the trem cavity, maybe i was supposed to heat them up or something.
Doesn't really matter though. The screw holes measured out farther back anyway.