A440A@aol.com wrote: > Ron asks: > > Can you bend a laminated tenor bridge with hot hide glue all by > >yourself and have time to get it in the cauls and clamped before the glue > >jells? > > If I were wrestling with an unwieldy collection of clamps and templates, > probably not. If there is a solid form, against which multiple clamps can > pull the bridge into contact with cauls, yes. I can certainly imagine a steel > table, with forms and clamping posts, upon which one places a stack of freshly > glued strips of veneer, and has them under pressure in two minutes. --------------------------------------- Don't you suppose that this is just possibly a bit much time and expense to go through just to glue up one laminated bridge body for just one piano just so that animal hide glue could be used? Del
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