[CAUT] glue sizing (great tip!!)

[Mark Cramer]

Thanks for this great tip David (swabbing the hole w/alcohol to break
surface tension) I will add it to my recipe!

Mark Cramer
Brandon University

BTW, for the same reason I swithced to re-sizing flange birds-eyes with an
alcohol/glue solution rather than water/glue, several years ago:

(squirt in with a syringe, blow out with compressed air, dry over
Dampp-Chaser bar... works fine!)

I wonder why I wouldn't replace the water in key-hole sizing solution with
alcohol as well? The wood is already swollen from steam, so it's not as
though I need the water to swell the wood. Anyone comment?

THANKS!




 My one addition is to swap the hole with
>some alcohol, before applying warm to hot sizing solution.  If the keys
>are dirty, the solution just seems to sit without absorbing into the
>fibers unless I've used something to break the water's surface tension,
>.  Otherwise, my current preference for older keys is probably more along
>Don's "pin-less" approach.  For new keys, I'd probably try the pin-caul
>method, if I had the correct size pin.
>
>David Skolnik