At 18:26 +0000 2/3/08, richard.ucci at att.net wrote: >...Is it norman to have that 1-2 mm piece of wood at the front with >the ivory front glued to it? Couldn'tÊI just remove the whole piece >with the ivory still attached and glue on a new front? The beech or maple backing veneer is normal, since otherwise the ivory would be glued directly to softwood end grain and would be very insecure. If you hold the front against an iron until it's fairly hot, the veneer and ivory together can easily be separated from the key with a table knife or something similar. You can replace the fronts with a full thickness plastic or celluloid using an epoxy glue, which doesn't care about end grain, so no backing veneer is required and you will get about the same overall thickness. JD
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