[CAUT] Lacquering Steinway Hammers

[Greg Newell]

Has anyone tried Walter Wurdak for this lacquer? 314-351-6600 (St. Louis Mo.)


At 11:08 AM 11/10/2004, you wrote:

>On Wednesday, November 10, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Russell Schmidt wrote:
>
>>     My question now is how much I should dilute my lacquer (26% solid by 
>> weight) to come up with this properly diluted solution that would be 
>> equivalent of a 3:1 "Steinway lacquer solution". I came up with a 7:1 
>> solution as the answer but my results make me think this is too weak.
>>Or, would anyone know of a source for the lacquer used by Steinway or 
>>similar product. According to the Stienway parts department, they do not 
>>sell it.
>
>Hi Russell,
>I've had a similar experience with not finding the composition of the 
>lacquers available at Lowe's and Home Depot.  Thank you for sharing the 
>information on the Deft product.  That will help me tremendously in my 
>next lacquering project. (yeah, I mixed this last one too strong)
>
>At the convention in Nashville, Mr. Schandall spoke in depth on this 
>subject, stressing that lacquer is extremely important to building 
>resilience in Steinway hammers.  He did say that Steinway doesn't sell 
>their hammer hardening lacquer, because apparently Steinway doesn't think 
>it should be in the business of selling chemicals.  Neither did he reveal 
>the manufacturer of the product Steinway uses.  I did wonder, then,  why 
>they do sell the lacquers for the plate, case, etc...???? (available by 
>the gallon, or can)
>
>He said, though, that the products that are available through Mohawk and 
>Sherwin Williams would probably be very close to what they were 
>using.  But either way, the idea is to formulate a dilution, in terms of 
>percentage of solids, similar to the solution they are using at 
>Steinway.  I would also add that a year ago in Dallas, Ron Connor was 
>talking in terms of perhaps 6:1 for the second application, though he 
>cautioned that one should experiment until the lacquer is absorbed into 
>the hammer in a certain way he described, which was a bit different from 
>the way Eric Schandall spoke of a second application.
>
>Jeff
>
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