Gluing wippen

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Kristinn,
You might remove the wood from the section that is broken and splice in wood
from another style wippen.
With careful fitting, filing and sanding,
 you can get arround the previous break and the old glue.
Joe Goss
imatunr@primenet.com
http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/

----- Original Message -----
From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 5:04 AM
Subject: Gluing wippen


> Hi,
>
> I´m trying to fix a broken wippen from a Wagner upright.
> The problem is that there is no jack flange, but the center pin goes
> through a hole in the wippen "proper", so I hesitate to find a replacement
> instead of fixing it, since this is not very common in pianos around here.
> It´s been glued before, but it broke again.  However I don´t think it was
> glued well enough so I´d like to try it myself (the pieces fit pretty well
> together)
>
> What interesting methods might be hidden there inside your brains?
> Wasn´t it Susan Kline that had something involving two types of glue.
> Could you explain thoroughly which glues ya´ll have in mind, seeing as
> trademarks are variable?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kristinn
>
>