On 01/31/2012 07:09 PM, Bruno Fournier wrote:
My wife is a luthier and always uses wet heat. Alcohol will damage the
varnish and repairing the varnish is a lot of extra work, especially
with violins and celli. (Although after the opening and closing of the
instruments a varnish repair is also necessary with the wet heat tool,
but much less). Using alcolhol is the amateur way of working.
In the same line: A lutemaker in the netherlands used/uses woodglue to
glue damaged lutebridges. Although he thinks himself a professional he's
clearly not.
taco
Have always used wet heat.
A
wouldn't regluing after be a problem? as there might be remnants of the
alcohol preventing the glue from binding properly?
A
Bruno
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:06 PM, William Samson
<[1]willsam...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
A I use alcohol - I learned the trick on a course I did in piano
repair.
A Very effective! A The downside is that it could hurt the finish -
A especially if it's a French polish. A Ordinary methylated spirit
works
A just fine.
A Bill
A From: Herbert Ward<[2]wa...@physics.utexas.edu>
A To: [3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
A Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 16:31
A Subject: [LUTE] Alcohol as glue breaker.
A I asked a luthier how he broke the glue joint in doing
A a repair. A I expected to hear a description of some
A variation of wet heat.
A To my surprise, he said that he used anhydrous ethyl
A alcohol (eg, 190 proof Everclear liquor).
A He said that the alcohol drawa all the water out of the
A glue, and that perfectly dry glue has no strength and
A comes apart easily.
A Does anyone else use alcohol? A Why do some luthiers use
A alcohol and others use wet heat?
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