At 08:10 AM 8/25/2002 -0700, you wrote: >YES!!!!! Use "Duravar" from M.L. Campbell. This is a >bowling alley, 2-part varnish, VERY hard! > > >Has anyone you know of experimented with a > > different, impervious material > > >for soundboards or a sealing technique that would > > take a lot of the > > >humidity factor out of pitch stability? > > > > > >Alan Barnard Did either of you guys read Del's Journal articles on epoxying soundboards? It isn't intended as an applied dimensional stabilizer, but rather as a "last hope" stiffener to make the soundboard more nearly functional when there's just no way it is going to be replaced. I don't know what the long term effects are on tuning stability, but it works admirably as a stiffener. Ron N
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