Working quickly, using my no-glue-pot hide glue method, I brush glue onto both surfaces:
Gotta move fast with hide glue!
I squish the bridge down onto the top and slide it until it just touches the tape. Hot hide glue has a really good initial "tack" so it doesn't tend to slide around as I apply the big clamp to the center:
I add my smaller clamps to the ends:
These clamps bear nicely on the aluminum caul beneath, and the little cauls on top even out the pressure.
I want to see a nice squeeze-out of liquid, not gelled, hide glue:
The hide glue cleans up easily with some of the warm water left in my beaker:
I always leave the bridge clamped overnight at least, and longer if the workroom is particularly cold in the winter. Just a touch with my bridge pin reamer is all it takes to clean the dried glue out of the bridge pin holes:
All done, and ready to rock!
