[CAUT] Down Weight Too High With New Hammers

Zeno Wood zeno.wood at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 12:30:23 MDT 2010


Fred - What's your method for clamping the new felt?

Thanks,
Zeno Wood


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote:

> On Sep 18, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Paul Milesi, RPT wrote:
>
> If I can’t get new repetitions, is it worth trying to bolster cushions or
> can they be easily replaced?
>
>
> I prefer replacement of felt to bolstering. Turn the stack upside down,
> saturate the felt with an acetic acid solution (a little wallpaper remover
> or alcohol helps it soak right in, and heating the solution a bit speeds up
> the process). Pull felt off when it is nice and loose, replace using hot
> hide glue. Precut felt to size in a mass production manner (strip to width,
> then cut to length; or, if you have strips that are as wide as the length
> you need, just slice to width). Use a rotary cutter on a mat, a straight
> edge with mild sandpaper glued to one side to hold it firmly.
> Learning this kind of technique is well worth while in the long run, as it
> has plenty of applications.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> fssturm at unm.edu
> http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm
>
>
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