Balance Rail Bushings

[William R. Monroe]

David,

Nothing says you can't apply the glue to the cloth using the Bushmaster 
system.  A fellow tech told me of this method, and I've used it since. 
Using hot hide, apply the glue to a length of cloth (about enough to do a 
dozen keys).  Give it a moment to begin to tack, then begin bushing.  I use 
cauls that are heated, sitting on a hot plate (coffee mug warmer).  Works 
rather well.

William R. Monroe


SNIP
>What I didn't like was that I wasn't able to be sure how much glue I had in 
>the key mortise.  With the Spurlock system the glue is applied to the cloth 
>in full view.  With the Bushmaster, the glue is put into the mortise and 
>its hard to see how much glue is in there.  At the end I decided to stick 
>with the Spurlock system, because I'm willing to sacrifice perfect 
>uniformity of depth for perfect uniformity of glue.  Then again, maybe I 
>didn't have a good enough method of applying glue to the mortise.
>
> David Weiss