lid construction

[gordon stelter]

TiteBond, or plain old Elmer's white glue, can be
applied with a  roller for consistency of thickness to
both surfaces, then allowed to dry. Once it is dry the
two pieces can be placed together and a  clothes iron
pressed over the surface, which temporarily re-melts
the glue and sticks the pieces to gether.
     Its still a real pain on large surfaces to get
everything fully flat, and I would REALLY like to hear
from anyone who does this regularly and gets
goodcresults!
     PLEASE!
     Thump

--- Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/2/2004 8:45:52 PM Pacific
> Standard Time, 
> ANRPiano@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 2/2/2004 7:19:39 PM Pacific
> Standard Time, 
> tune4@earthlink.net writes:
> Just curious: how do you plan to "glue" the veneer
> to the core?  Do you have 
> a press rigged up, use contact cement, use a hot
> glue method, or use hot hide 
> glue?
> I am getting to this now.  I have two choices, my
> first would be a vacuum 
> press, but I will need a larger bag than I have now,
> I can do an 8 x 4, but need 
> 8.5 x 5.5 to have a comfortable fit.
> 
> I have had mixed results with wood glues and vacuum
> presses, I will 
> experiment first. If I can get it to work Tite bond
> would be my choice because of the 
> open time.
> 
> I may rig my pneumatic soundboard press for this,
> but I may have to make some 
> modifications to accommodate the thickness of core,
> veneer, and caul.
> 
> On such a large surface I was thinking the paper
> backed would be easier to 
> work with than standard veneer.  I will probably
> cross band it, simply to be on 
> the safe side.
> 
> As far as laying up the core, it has been a simple
> matter of cutting down the 
> larger pieces of material, alternating grain,
> planing, edgeing, glueing two 
> pieces together at a time and trying to keep
> everything as flat as possible.  I 
> have used bisquets through the first two assembly
> stages, while these are 
> handy for alignment, I think some of my alignment
> problems can be traced to the 
> biscuits.  So the bisquest have been a mixed
> blessing.
> 
> I will see about pictures.
> 
> Andrew Remillard
>  Andrew-I believe its possible to coat both veneer &
> lid with thin Hot hide 
> or is it tight bond, anyway & then Iron it firmly
> into place. I'll check with 
> Bob Davis. I think he & Marcia have done this a few
> times. This would be way 
> simpler than what I'm hearing proposed.
> 
> 
> 
> Dale Erwin
> Erwins Piano Restorations
> 4721 Parker Rd, Modesto, Ca. 95357
> erwinspiano@aol.com
> 


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