This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Terry Farrell You wrote:" She will be peering right over my shoulder for the whole job = - I'm gettin' the Willies! " Willie - or Willie not? I have it on the best authority of Harpsichord = makers here in the UK that they use a rubber-based glue for all felt = attachment work. Called "Copydex" in the old countreeee it really is = very good. It's clean. It is used cold straight from the container. It = comes either in a tube or a small white plastic plastic bottle with a = red plastic screw-top lid attached to which (inside, in the glue already = rarin' to go) is a brush applicator. Be very careful (here comes the = caveat) not to spill any of this white glue! You can smear off any = residue and it rolls off the fingers when you rub it. For total neatness = I always use a set of ready-cut best French damper felts which are = available for both uprights (under-dampers) and grands. Each ready cut = felt is red backed. Having hacked off the old felt (not forgetting to = keep a pattern of the overstring bit and also to mark in pencil on the = damper bodies where the clip,wedge,split and pad start and end) I sand = off the old red backing on the damper heads right down to the wood on my = belt sander. It is using the ready cuts which makes the difference - the = ends are so very precise and square - a cutting which I cannot get in = the sharpest guillotine.;-) Good luck with your dragon! :-0 Michael G (UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8e/1d/1b/e1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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