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@unl.edu <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>A440A@aol.com Sent by: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org 07/24/2008 07:58 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>pianotech@ptg.org <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: Filling fingernail gouges on fallboard</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>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 ************** Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today.       (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)</HTML> </tt>