[pianotech] Best glue for shims?

[Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft]

To everyone who responded to this question,

If someone asked me what I like best about this group. My answer would have to be, the different ways that each of us does things and the reason we do it. We write in, we read and we learn. We don't learn from a single person, we learn from the diversity of the answers. We will draw our own conclusions, and it will effect the answer we give when we are asked.

I truly love the diversity.

Thanks to all,

Al


  From: Fenton Murray 
  Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:19 AM
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Best glue for shims?


  Al,
  I haven't done much shimming in a while but used to do quite a bit. I've used Tite Bond, Cold Hide, Boluc, and epoxy and have never seen a failure. At this point I would consider color, viscosity, spreadability, toxicity and set up time my primary criteria. I've heard much on the importance of the glue or epoxy to expand/contract with the wood, but I don't think it makes any difference. How much is a glue line going to move? Even a crack filled with epoxy has no real significance since it only taking up a fraction of a fraction of real estate in the soundboard. Hide will be dark, Tite Bond will be yellow, Bolduc will be white, I like white.
  Fenton
  Just my opinion.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft 
    To: Pianotech List 
    Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:06 AM
    Subject: [pianotech] Best glue for shims?


    Hi All,

    I have been using Titebond for shimming the soundboard, but would like to know what others are using.

    Al


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