Pianobuilder Proverb

[Farrell]

I've been using (well, usually anyway) some thick plastic that comes in a roll at Home Depot - it's like 10 feet wide and a zillion feet long. I cut little piece to lay on the wooden clamps. I also use it extensively with epoxy - nothing seems to stick to it - when epoxy-laminating you can wrap the wood up and it ends up sitting in a trough of epoxy. I had been drying my 300+ bd.-ft. of Sitka in my garage for 6 months - it seems dry enough so I moved it into my 45% RH shop. Started checking on the ends within two days. Out with the plastic - wrapped it up tight - RH in plastic-wrapped wood is right up at 80% - all checking closed right up. Many uses for the plastic!

But yeah, maybe if I waxed the clamps, I wouldn't have to worry about remembering the no-stick stuff.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Pianobuilder Proverb


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: July 30, 2003 12:32 PM
> Subject: Pianobuilder Proverb
> 
> 
> > Old pianobuilder proverb:
> >
> > He who glue up spruce panel with wooden panel clamps,
> > had best use non-stick liner between panel and clamps.
> >
> > Would have taken a picture, but too many four-letter words were rolling
> off my tongue to permit that.
> >
> > :-(
> 
> It's just as well--all those negative vibes fog the film--both photographic
> and electronic.
> 
> Either coat the clamps with epoxy (you know what that stuff is--I know you
> do!) or at least shoot them with a coat of lacquer. And then wax those
> suckers, Terry, wax them!
> 
> Del
> 
> 
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