[CAUT] Filling fingernail gouges on fallboard

[Ed Sutton]

The scarf joint method Cliff Geers taught is a beautiful way to join veneer repairs. There used to be a video of Geers demonstrating the method in the Western Iowa Tech community College library. Maybe your librarian can get it on interlibrary loan. When I use his technique I make clamping cauls out of hammer trimming felt. It does a great job of pressing the veneer into the scarfed areas.
Ed Sutton
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  From: Paul T Williams 
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  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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