Crack fillers - old soundboards

[Joseph Garrett]

Wallace,
I have done a board with similar situation, using water thin Epoxy. Used
masking tape under the cracks. Wedged the board up and injected the epoxy
with blunt needle syringe. Worked adequately and the customer was happy, as
the buzzes went away and the sound improved enought to be tolerable.
regards,
Joe Garrett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallace Scherer" <p003520b@pb.seflin.org>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: Crack fillers - old soundboards


> 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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