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Re: Padding Woes

Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-07-15 17:33

Use superglue to fill in the chips and pores in the toneholes (applied with a needle spring onto the crown and in the chips) and then leave it to harden. Then once hardened, you can tidy it all up with a tonehole levelling tool made from brass bar machined flat at one end to fit the relative tonehole bedplace diameter and glue abrasive paper to it.

This will remove the excess dired superglue on the bedplace crown and also level the crown to make it easier to seat a pad onto. Any superglue on the bevel or inside the tonehole can be scraped off with a sharp scalpel once the crown has been levelled, though most will come away easily when scraped with a scalpel (but don't dig the scalpel into the wood!).

If the chips are too shallow for the superglue to take to, you can deepen them by pushing a scalpel blade into the bedplace crown to cut the chips/pores deeper and this will give the superglue more surface to adhere to. Best to degrease the toneholes before applying superglue to ensure it adheres and there's no grease or dirt that will compromise the success of filling the chips/pores.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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2010-07-15 17:33