glue for hammers

[Diane Hofstetter]

Tom Levings, our Portland, Oregon Chapter President and the man in charge of our Pacific Northwest Conference: www.pnwcptg.org was hanging a set with Titebond Wood Trim and Molding glue when stopped by his place the other day--he was delighted with it.

A couple of days later, I was at the Piano Hospital, experimenting with some new tools from Ed Sutton and we used the Trim and Molding glue. The tools and the glue both worked wonderfully--Thank you, Ed!
Diane


>From Les Barttlett:
Some of us just don't like hide glue. No "good reason"- but there's no good
reason to like apple pie either. So we will search till we find a
reasonable substitute........
les bartlett

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Dean May
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:58 PM
To: 'Pianotech List'
Subject: glue for hammers



Someone recently suggested Titebond Wood Trim and Molding glue for hammer
hanging. I've used different glues in the past, most recently I've been
using hide glue. I decided to trim the molding glue on a set of upright
hammers I just hung and I loved it. It had very fast tack time, even on
joints that were very loose. The next day there were a few hammers I had to
redo. No problem, just heated them up with the blow drier and moved them
were I wanted them.





Diane Hofstetter