>> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 14:09:56 -0600 From: Roger Jolly <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> <snip> The two hardeners that I use are 5:1 laquer, or crushed chalk and acetone mixture for lighter type toning, ironing with a warm voicing iron seems to set and stabalise the treatment. Key top solution I reserve for treating bass or lower tenor hammers, very liberal application below the 9 o'clock point towards the hammer shank, in place of the grey reinforcing of yesterday. the more that I use this approach, the more convinced I become that we frequently work too high up on the hammer before seting a solid foundation. If you create a very solid bass to the hammer, there is more leeway to play with the elasticity of the shoulders. << Roger, A couple of questions to clarify your approach. Are you saying that keytops and acetone is only really applicable for getting a solid foundation to the back of hammers, and that lacquer is superior for shoulders and maybe crown? I am not familiar with the chalk and acetone. Could you detail the strength, and under what circumstances would you choose this mixture? How does it perform longer term (schoolboy images of a cloud of chalk dust when beating a duster)? Regards, John Woodrow Sydney, Australia Email: Woodroj@syvax.email.dupont.com Telephone: 61-2-99236103 Fax: 61-2-99236099
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