Filling fingernail gouges on fallboard

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BD writes:

<< What would you recommend to fill fingernail gouges in the fall board? >>

     That is a bit tougher, unless it is ebony, then it is simple to dye an 
epoxy, fill in, sand down, polish, play etc.  .  For wood, I suppose you could 
use a very small, thin veneer and scarf the individual sections that needed 
it.  Use the thinnest veneer possible for enough flexibility to fill small 
depressions. 
    If the dig was deeper than the veneer thicness,  build up the bottom of 
the dig with some Durham's and glue in with hot tide glue, which I think helps 
soften the veneer better and quicker than the aliphatics and modern glue.  
        The glue line on a joint like this is going to be visible, and worth 
it to minimize.  The hot hide glue, used extremely thin, over a properly sized 
joint, is almost undetectable, depending on the evenness of the scarfing.  
Cliff Geers was particularly adept at this technique and had a pictoral tutorial 
of a job he did around the case of a Baldwin with a lot of veneer damage.  If 
you didnt' know where to look, you would not have been aware of the repair. 
Regards, 



Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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