Glues

[Jason Kanter]

> [CA glue] Commonly called superglue, now available in different viscosities,
> with accelerators, special applicators, and more varied uses.

So Susan is saying that you mix yellow carpenters glue with super glue for
special uses? um ... why? I'da thought you could decide from the situation
which type was preferable. I'd have thought that yellow glue is particularly
good at binding fibrous (porous) material and also providing some fill and a
tad of shock absorption, while super glue will bind non-porous materials
with a chemical bond and yet does not generate any fill. So maybe when you
want to bind *relatively* non-porous materials and provide a tad of fill you
can get the best of both from the combo? Is that the thinking?

Are you folks using epoxy for anything these days? Sheldon Smith used to use
it on the down-string edge of a new pinblock when fitting it to the plate,
and also when shimming a soundboard. He would take a half-teaspoon of
soundboard sandings and mix it into the epoxy to get the color match, then
use it as the glue for the shim, because he said it not only completely
filled the gap but also provided seamless resonance across the shim. How
does that sound these days? (I'm talking 1971 here.)


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