Bolduc Glue

[Ron Nossaman]

>>Has anyone had experience taking apart and cleaning surfaces with a 
>>yellow glue joint? Or are we going to have to wait 50 - 100 years to find 
>>this out?
>>Terry Farrell
>
>Anyone who has had the arduous task of rebuilding a player stack which had 
>been previously
>rebuilt with white or yellow glue knows first hand not to make the same 
>mistake.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jon Page,   piano technician


I certainly agree with Jon on the player stacks. The damage the last guy 
did getting the hide glue joints apart (then randomly gluing the splinters 
back together without having cleaned anything up), and the damage I'll do 
breaking apart the new and surprisingly more extensive glue joints and 
cleaning the combination rock-hard/rubbery mixture of old hide glue and 
whatever goo of the moment the last guy used from soft poplar (and making 
new parts) is why I add considerably to my price for second time rebuilds.

The length of that last sentence notwithstanding, using an appropriate PVA 
glue on soundboard joints is a vastly different concern. It's worlds easier 
to get the remains of any water and heat softened glue and the remains of 
splintered spruce off of a rim.


Ron N