I've had hot hide glue go as well. I only make instruments for myself, so I glue the bridge with white woodwork glue and screw small round head brass screws through the bridge plate in to the bridge, so far this has worked, remember even Strads have…
there is a lot of information on the net, it's not long before you know how it's built, when I had done this I made a drawing of what I was going to do..it wasn't a posh drawing. but one I could use to work out the sizes.
the thing you really need t…