Cracked Lid

[Farrell]

All that I have seen have been edge glued. A good edge-glued joint should be
(and is) stronger than the wood itself - so there is really no reason to
ever see the joints. When I clean up my shop floor of wood cuttings around
the bandsaw, I routinely grab a few several-foot-long cuttings from the edge
of a spruce soundboard panel(s) (comprised of several/numerous edge-glued
flitches) and give it a whack on a table edge to make it smaller for the
trash can. I enjoy inspecting the breaks - I have never seen one break at
the joint - always breaks somewhere in the solid wood.

Terry Farrell

www.farrellpiano.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Grebe" <pianoman@accessus.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: Cracked Lid


> On long grands where the lid has been kept mostly in the up position you
can
> imagine the stress, over the years it put on the glue joints on the long
> core panels glued together for the lid with only support on one end and
the
> other just kind of hanging out there.  It is a wonder that we do not seem
> more of this in anything over 6'.  I do not know if they used any special
> types of joint between the boards or if they were all just edge glued.
Any
> one tore one apart to see.?
> Jim
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Chick (Earthlink)" <tune4@earthlink.net>
> To: "Pianotech@Ptg.Org" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:05 PM
> Subject: Cracked Lid
>
>
> > List readers:
> >
> > I inspected a recently refinished mahogany veneered lid for a 1901
> > Steinway
> > Grand that is showing cracks through the finish telegraphed from the
> > joints
> > of the core material.  There doesn't appear to be any cross banding
> > between
> > the core-which looks like oak-and the face veneer.  The cracks are from
> > the
> > hinge end and show on both sides of the lid.  The shop is a first rate
> > refinishing facility with very talented staff.  No one hs ever seen this
> > problem before, and no one remembers seeing the cracks in the lid before
> > refinishing.  The stripping process does not use waterbased strippers or
> > rinses. The humidity during stripping and finishing was close to 60%,
now
> > it's about 40%. Has anyone seen this in other lids/pieces from that era?
> > I'd
> > appreciate any thoughts or experiences.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Paul C
> >
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