HOW TO FIX SNAPPED SCREWS
Jun 04, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY HUW PRICE
We’ve all seen used guitars with desperately wonky tuner installations, off-centre bridges and bridge screws at awkward angles. If you remove the parts, you’ll often find that they’re off-kilter because a screw head has snapped off, leaving the threaded section stuck in the wood.
Some of you may even have had screw heads snap when trying to force a screw into wood with a pilot hole that’s just too narrow. Here, I’m going to show you how to craft a simple tool that will allow you to extract broken screws with minimal damage to the surrounding wood.
To make your screw extractor, you
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