Filling fingernail gouges on fallboard

[Paul T Williams]

Ed,

That sounds like a plan.  Here's an interesting one.  A Wurlitzer upright, 
epoxy finish that has a HUGE piece missing from the left cheek.  It's 
probably 8-9 inches long with all veneer, finish, etc gone, just the 
plywood showing on the curve from just where it starts at the music-desk 
area to around the curve down to the key-slip.....ie  two curves.

How does one fix this one?????  It's a real yucky piano, and in a practice 
room, so I'm not too concerned.  It would be nice to fix it up some 
though.....  A great practice project... As Richard West always tells 
me... "There's another reason they call them practice rooms!! "

Thanks in advance!

Paul T. Williams RPT
Piano Technician
School of Music
5 Westbrook Bldg.
University of Nebraska
Lincoln NE  68588
pwilliams4 at unl.edu





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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 
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