[pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's?

[CHARLES BECKER]

Stewart/ Macdonald is good as is Rockler tools water thin.
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's?


>
> << CA glue with relatively good results. After sitting in on one of Ed
> Dryburg's seminars at a convention I've been using his method to treat 
> pinblocks
> when necessary. I'm fairly pleased with the results--and I particularly 
> like that
> the results are almost immediate. But in speaking with other techs, a lot 
> of
> them use PinTite or Garfield's, and they SWEAR by it.  >>
>
>     Let them swear! And then let them tune their results.
>     Other than CA, all of the pin tightening fluids I encountered left a
> greasy, vague, spongy feeling in the block.  I was never comfortable that 
> the
> string was actually anchored, since it was difficult to tell when the pin 
> began
> to move.
>   I have used CA a lot, and it is head and shoulders above anything else I
> have seen.  I like the #10 water thin from Stewart-Macdonald guitar 
> supply.
> Hope that helps.
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
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> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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