<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You wrote:" She will be peering right = over my shoulder for the whole job - I'm gettin' the Willies! "</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Willie - or Willie not? I have it on = the best authority of Harpsichord makers here in the UK that they use a = rubber-based glue for all felt attachment work. Called "Copydex" in the old countreeee it = really is very good. It's clean. It is used cold straight from the container. = It comes either in a tube or a small white plastic plastic bottle with a red = plastic screw-top lid attached to which (inside, in the glue already rarin' = to go) is a brush applicator. Be very careful (here comes the caveat) not to = spill any of this white glue! You can smear off any residue and it rolls off the = fingers when you rub it. For total neatness I always use a set of ready-cut best = French damper felts which are available for both uprights (under-dampers) and = grands. Each ready cut felt is red backed. Having hacked off the old felt (not forgetting to keep a pattern of the overstring bit and also to mark in = pencil on the damper bodies where the clip,wedge,split and pad start and end) = I sand off the old red backing on the damper heads right down to the wood on my = belt sander. It is using the ready cuts which makes the difference - the ends = are so very precise and square - a cutting which I cannot get in the sharpest guillotine.;-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good luck with your dragon! = :-0</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G = (UK)</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>