<HTML>In a message dated 12/5/2002 1:35:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, Yardarm103669107@aol.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj: Bolduc Glue Date: 12/5/2002 1:35:58 PM Pacific Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:Yardarm103669107@aol.com">Yardarm103669107@aol.com</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet List: Who out there has tried Andre Bolduc's glue (recommended for bridges and soundboards)? What applications have you used it in, e.g. bridges, etc., and what is your experience with it? Any details will be appreciated: set-up time, working time, clean up, etc. Thanks. Paul Revenko</BLOCKQUOTE>           Hi Paul            I've used about four quarts over the last year or so  in various applications. It is in my opinion a much tougher glue than the average yellow wood glues like tightbond. I first used for gluing bridge caps for its non- clog the drillbit benifit. I've since found it to be almost non- thermo plastic, which is good in certain uses. O.K. add enough heat and every thing is but I mean if you put something together with this glue be sure you don't have to take it apart. I recently glued a soundboard in to the rim and  the next day the glue was hard as glass and the board boomed nicely. With my usual cold hide glue apllication I usually don't get a good solid boom for 5 to seven days.           However being a believer in using the right glue for a given application I would feel sorry for any one who has remove this glue from an inner rim (rasten) without tearing  up the glue joint. It's just very tough stuff. So be warned. I don't know if I'll do that again.      Rib joints and board work would be another place that would be fine. I mean you don't want the ribs to come off.              Dale Erwin</HTML>