RE: Old Style Leather Buttons Hi Paul. I care for a 16 mm diameter and 1.3 mm deep flat hole in the lid. I then put, without glue, a 1 mm thick 4 mm diameter piece of felt, covered by another piece of felt 1 mm thick and 9 mm diameter, again without glue. Then I cover this with a piece of nice leather (more like chamois), also 1 mm thick, that I hot hide glue only at the perimeter, where it will contact the wood in the hole, leaving the underlayers of felt untouched by the glue. You need quite dense glue for this, not too liquid. It is important that the leather end up a tiny bit under the lid surface : they will live longer that way. Old Bechsteins didnt use leather for this, but a special sort of gummy thing, like caoutchouc, aging quite badly as they end up always very brittle and worn. Not so with leather. And this set up is very smooth and quiet. Best regards. Stéphane Collin. List members: A client wants the original leather buttons installed on his ebony grand. Thanks, Stephane. I will try this with the other methods Paul C -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080625/64ecf506/attachment.html
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