Please Help, can I even fix this?!
So for some context, I’m 19 and just worked a month and a half to be able to drop all of my free paycheck on this second hand Ibanez today and I was so excited to finally get it and get to shred on it but after the initial test, I knew I wanted to take some old parts I had to upgrade it. After spending all afternoon swapping out the pickups, cleaning it up and just generally caring for it, I went for the bridge because I have had very bad luck with the Floyd licensed bridges in the past. This was no exception.
The strings were basically all set up and I just needed to raise the bridge on the low E side when I realized it wouldn’t budge. So, to ensure everything was okay, I fully took off of the bridge only to then spend the next three or so hours fidgeting with the screw to no avail. I would not move at all. I tried, rubber bands, WD-40, superglue, just about everything. As a last-ditch effort, I used my dremel to try and cut a line that I could then use a flathead screwdriver to unscrew it but instead it just fully crumbled. Like half of it just obliterated itself.
I made an attempt to use the last piece to maybe get even a little torque but with even the slightest amount of friction caused that too to snap off.
I don’t even know what to do at this point. It’s probably far too late to ask you guys but I really cannot afford to buy another guitar at all let alone a new body or anything of the such. I’m so disappointed because I was so looking forward to playing it for so long now. I had had my eye on it for so long.
Any suggestions or ideas for being able to fix this idiotic problem would be SO helpful!!
TL;DR I screwed up bad and need a way to get this damn bridge screw out after hours of trying and breaking it worse.