sanding sealers

[C. Mike Swendsen]

At 02:41 PM 2/5/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Have any of you tried the water based sanding sealers as a hardening agent
>for hammers? Does it work as well as traditional sanding sealers, and would
>you still mix it with acetone- or something else?
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>My personal feelings on using 'water bassed' anything on hammers is that it
will swell the hammers and soften them.  A water and alcohol solution is
often used to 'voice' Oriental hammers when they become to hard sounding.
I'm afraid that  if water based sanding sealers are used and when the water
evaporates out, you would be faced with fluffy, brittle sounding hammers,
with little tone and very little power.
Anybody out there have any other ideas/experience?
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