Titebond Trim and Molding glue for bushings....

Prof. Euphonious Thump lclgcnp at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 5 12:00:36 MST 2008


Another reason I like the Titebond molding and trim
glue for this. Doesn't go anywherem, and doesn't soak
into the cloth, much.
     Thump

--- Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote:

> Both... and quite a bit of trial and error over a
> year or so really. One 
> of the nice things about working in a University
> situation is that you 
> have lots of opportunity to do things over and over.
> You get a feel for 
> how much glue to lay on any given cloth.  Too much
> will of course push 
> off the sides when you try and spread it out with
> your finger now matter 
> what you do.  Too little wont spread over the whole
> surface so as to 
> seal it.  So you want enough to do the latter at
> least... more for 
> thicker cloth.
> 
> Try a few sample lengths with different bushing
> cloth thickness... 
> you'll see what I mean pretty quickly.  Then its
> just to get a feel for 
> how much you need to firm up the cloth enough for
> wear and tear 
> concerns.. but not too much so as to make for too
> hard a bushing.  I 
> might suggest you start by making too hard a bushing
> and back off from 
> there... :)
> 
> Cheers
> RicB
> 
> 
>     How is it that you control the wicking in?  The
> amount of glue?  The
>     amount
>     of pressure? Both?
> 
>     Barbara
> 
> 



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