<div dir="ltr">If the "someones website" is Bill Spurlock, yes that's a good way to proceed. <div>Hot hide glue was THE glue in piano construction (with a bit of burnt varnish to adhere felt to iron plate). It does take a bit of skill and practice to use it well. Various other glues have been used as recent decades have marched along. Many of those glues are excellent in applications where there's no chance that repair is necessary after the initial assembly. A bit of moist heat, or a rubber hammer, and disassembly is easy and the old hide glue is easily removed w/ a scraper. Many of the "other" glues are a very royal pain to disassemble & properly clean up for repair & reassembly.</div> <div>So yes, hot hide glue is a "best choice" but I can't pretend it's the "only" way it's done.</div><div>There are several excellent articles in the PTJournals on glues (one of them in a series by Del Fandrich). You *should* have the past 26 or so years of Journals' articles on hand in CD format (available from the Home Office).</div> <div>Patrick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Matthew Todd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toddpianoworks@att.net">toddpianoworks@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div>Yes I am.  I just wanted to be sure.  What is the formula for mixture?  I have a hot pot, and I thought I'd use a baby food jar.  I believe there is a way to do this on someones website?</div><div class="Ih2E3d"> <div> </div> <div>Is the basic rule to use hot hide on all felt and buckskin?</div> <div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>