Crack fillers - old soundboards

[Richard Brekne]

Thin Epoxy from West System (available lots of places) works very well for
this. You dont need to open the cracks much.. but it can get pretty messy so
be carefull.

If the cracks arent causing any trouble... and you are at all unsure of
yourself here....then leave them the way they are. Filling cracks is largely
a cosmetic effort anyways.

Wallace Scherer wrote:

> Has anyone out there tried any innovative approaches to sealing cracks in
> soundboards on old, cheap, baby grand pianos? I'm thinking about
> something on the order of a medium thickness CA glue, or some other
> liquid type of material that would fill in the crack.
>
> My customer has an old Winter baby grand with about 10 cracks in the
> soundboard, but none are very wide, not even paper thickness. She doesn't
> want to spend much money
> and is willing for me to experiment some. But I thought I'd better see if
> anyone else has experimented first.
>
> Wally Scherer
> Palm Beach County, Florida
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Richard Brekne
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Bergen, Norway
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