---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 2/2/2004 7:19:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, tune4@earthlink.net writes: Just curious: how do you plan to "glue" the veneer to the core? Do you have a press rigged up, use contact cement, use a hot glue method, or use hot hide glue? I am getting to this now. I have two choices, my first would be a vacuum press, but I will need a larger bag than I have now, I can do an 8 x 4, but need 8.5 x 5.5 to have a comfortable fit. I have had mixed results with wood glues and vacuum presses, I will experiment first. If I can get it to work Tite bond would be my choice because of the open time. I may rig my pneumatic soundboard press for this, but I may have to make some modifications to accommodate the thickness of core, veneer, and caul. On such a large surface I was thinking the paper backed would be easier to work with than standard veneer. I will probably cross band it, simply to be on the safe side. As far as laying up the core, it has been a simple matter of cutting down the larger pieces of material, alternating grain, planing, edgeing, glueing two pieces together at a time and trying to keep everything as flat as possible. I have used bisquets through the first two assembly stages, while these are handy for alignment, I think some of my alignment problems can be traced to the biscuits. So the bisquest have been a mixed blessing. I will see about pictures. Andrew Remillard ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/18/54/1b/2f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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