Terry wrote: >Can hot hide be used successfully to install a board with one set of >skilled hands, one semi-skilled set (wife), and one unskilled set (son) (I >just watch)? If so, what would be your procedure to do it within the >working time of hot hide glue. Thanks. Yes. Size the surfaces and use very thin glue (as for all general hide gluing). You'll have plenty of working time to install a soundboard. Have the clamping system ready-to-go beforehand, of course. If you're still worried you can heat the innards first, but I don't think that should be necessary. Enclose the underside somehow, and put a hairdryer inside the guts of the case with a blanket over top. You''ll get the temperature of the surfaces up pretty slick that way. Thin glue and sizing though....works good (as the Canadians like to say.) Stephen Stephen Birkett Fortepianos Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos 464 Winchester Drive Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2T 1K5 tel: 519-885-2228 mailto: sbirkett@real.uwaterloo.ca http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett
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