On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: > what have y'all done to hammers when you think the initial "juicing" > was less than perfect? I'm hoping there is still hope for these > hammers. Remove and reinstall the original h/s/f's (that I smartly > kept in a box); and juice the heck out of them, and then "start > over"? Is there a clean slate? Once again, you can soak out the existing lacquer (most of it): see my June, 2009 PTJ article (I can send you a pdf if you can't find it). Then start over. And it is possible to use the same tray method to apply lacquer - it will be certain to penetrate to the core. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Brecht -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110212/a3871cb7/attachment-0001.htm>
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