Klarinet Archive - Posting 001234.txt from 1999/05

From: "GLORIA F LEIZER" <myndtyme@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: covering the holes from moving thumbrest
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:48:02 -0400

I'm sending a correction to my info on filling thumb rest holes: the
sandpaper used is 220 grit.
----- Original Message -----
From: GLORIA F LEIZER <myndtyme@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] re: covering the holes from moving thumbrest

> Subject: Re: [kl] re: covering the holes from moving thumbrest
>
> Here's how I fill thumb rest holes: I have a Buffet R13 bell that's
broken
> into two pieces. When I need wood powder I use an x-acto knife with the
> blade nearly flat on the wood and slough off very fine wood flake with
> short, shallow strokes. To make the flakes very very fine, grind bits
> between your thumb and your favorite grinding finger (I use my index
> finger). When there are only fine flakes and no strings of wood, mix some
> with quick-dry epoxy. Add more wood flakes until the mush is med-thick.
Fill
> the hole, clean up around the edge and let the tenon rest with the filled
> holes perpendicular to the floor (and the pull of gravity). After the
filler
> is dry, rough up the top of the fill a very little bit using the corner of
a
> fold of 120 grit fine sandpaper. Color with a liquid varnish furniture
pen.
> Thechnique, as always, takes practise.
>
> Gloria Leizer, woodwind repair technician, Miami, F>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 4:47 PM
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