I for one see myself as a amateur lutemaker but I use animal glue throughout.
Cheers! Lex Op 1 feb 2012, om 08:25 heeft Taco Walstra het volgende geschreven: > 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 >> >> A >> >> A >> >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:06 PM, William Samson >> <[1][email protected]> 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][email protected]> >> A To: [3][email protected] >> 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? >> A To get on or off this list see list information at >> >> A [1][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> A -- >> References >> A 1. [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> -- >> >> A >> >> Bruno Cognyl-Fournier >> >> A >> >> [6]www.estavel.org >> >> A >> >> -- >> >> References >> >> 1. mailto:[email protected] >> 2. mailto:[email protected] >> 3. mailto:[email protected] >> 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> 6. http://www.estavel.org/ >> > > > -- > >
