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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed Sutton</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Filling fingernail
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<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Ed,</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>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.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>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!! "</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>Thanks in advance!</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>Paul T. Williams RPT</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Piano
Technician</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>School of Music</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>5 Westbrook Bldg.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>University of Nebraska</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>Lincoln NE 68588</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
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size=2>BD writes:<BR><BR><< What would you recommend to fill fingernail
gouges in the fall board? >><BR><BR> That is a bit tougher,
unless it is ebony, then it is simple to dye an <BR>epoxy, fill in, sand down,
polish, play etc. . For wood, I suppose you could <BR>use a very
small, thin veneer and scarf the individual sections that needed <BR>it.
Use the thinnest veneer possible for enough flexibility to fill small
<BR>depressions. <BR> If the dig was deeper than the veneer
thicness, build up the bottom of <BR>the dig with some Durham's and glue
in with hot tide glue, which I think helps <BR>soften the veneer better and
quicker than the aliphatics and modern glue. <BR>
The glue line on a joint like this is going to be visible, and worth
<BR>it to minimize. The hot hide glue, used extremely thin, over a
properly sized <BR>joint, is almost undetectable, depending on the evenness of
the scarfing. <BR>Cliff Geers was particularly adept at this technique
and had a pictoral tutorial <BR>of a job he did around the case of a Baldwin
with a lot of veneer damage. If <BR>you didnt' know where to look, you
would not have been aware of the repair. <BR>Regards, <BR><BR><BR><BR>Ed Foote
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