On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: > Many times I will find a set of pre-war hammers that are almost > intact. Thinking perhaps I can use these,... only to find upon > inserting a needle that the felt grabs the needle and the felt gets > harder and grabbier the deeper I push. This is not the > characteristic I expect in an untreated/un-hardened pre-war Weickert > felt hammer. I'll agree about the feel of the needle, but I don't think it is due to hardeners. My experience has shown that it is "friction in the wool" that can be countered by adding lanolin (as explained in a thread a few months ago. Feeling the wool, it is not that dense, and doesn't have that characteristic hard feel, rather it feels somewhat soft and somewhat resilient. But, yes, the needle will barely go in, and the felt holds it so you can hardly get it back out. After application of lanolin, it voices like a nice hammer. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them." Coco Chanel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110220/77a6c024/attachment.htm>
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