juicing/ related

[Farrell]

What are you doing with water-based-laquer? Are you applying it to hammers
to "Laquer" them? Interesting. Describe what it does. Seems like you would
have water acting to soften the felt, and laquer (or polyurethane or
whatever is actually in the paint) working to harden the felt. Please, info.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Jackson" <tunemwell@rcn.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:38 AM
Subject: juicing/ related


> Hi Y'all,
> Has anyone ever tried water-based laquer?. I have and it works
> extremely well. It's non-toxic - you can carry a bit of distilled water
> and mix up whatever ratio you need on the spot. It seems to set up a lot
> faster than spirits also and has almost no odor.
> Along the thread of Vodka, would this have any softening affect on hard
> knuckles? I wonder. I'm guessing probably not, but I'll give it a try
> sometime just to see. Also, I'm guessing some like the Vodka better than
> denatured alcohol (for the hammers) or why pay the price?
> Interesting info in previous posts on this thread.
> Dan J
>