gluing in the new board

[David Love]

I also do it alone and it's not that hard.  After the board is fitted to the
rim I screw it down around the perimeter enough so that I can drop the plate
in and out and fit the bridges.  I use largish washers between the head of
the screw and the SB to protect the board.  Those screw holes not only work
as a nice way to index the board back in, but with an electric screw driver
you can set the board down very quickly without having to mess with the
clamps.  As Ron mentioned, once the board is down on the glue you have a
fair amount of time to work around with the clamps and blocks.    

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:39 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: gluing in the new board


> Just curious if anyone uses epoxy to glue in a new soundboard?
> Other than the difficulty of removing the board in the next 25 to 50 
> years, are there any other problems associated with this?

Please don't. Someday someone will hunt you down, dig you up, 
and hammer your bones to dust for it. Just hope you're long 
dead when that happens.


> My main motivation for epoxy is that I will be alone for glue up and 
> prboably am not fast enough for carpenters glue.
> I do have a bottle of new glue that I have never used from Garrett Wate 
> called Slo-Set Glue - an aliphatic resin - gives about 30 min work time.
> Comments welcome.
> Gene Nelson

If it's a yellow aliphatic resin like Titebond, it should work 
fine. Titebond also makes a slow set glue, incidentally. I've 
found that I don't have trouble gluing boards in by myself 
with regular old original Titebond, and I'm definitely in the 
old and slow category. I make sure I have everything I need 
around the piano, and start slopping on glue. Over twice, to 
make sure everything's wet, soundboard in, clamp cauls down, 
clamp treble front, bass tail, bass front, treble tail, middle 
of the belly rail, and fill in between.The first five clamps 
put the board down in the glue all around, so you have time to 
get the rest of the clamps on without a problem. If I have any 
doubt, my wife can run F-clamps just fine, and doesn't mind 
helping if necessary.

Ron N