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Another victim of dry weather...
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estebanana
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RE: Another victim of dry weather... (in reply to rombsix)
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Here is the tool to fix it. A glue pushing instrument made from stainless steel tubing. You take a section of tubing, it must be stainless if you use metal, and flatten the end. Use a metal file to sharpen the end to get it out of the way so you can see where you are applying glue. Make a pump of some kind out of a small plastic vessel you can incorporate as a squeeze bottle for the glue. The wide flat end of the tube obviously helps get right to the mouth of the seam and pumps in glue in a flat stream where it is best flowed into the seam. A few leaks or even hard blasts of glue will do it. All conditions take glue a little differently. Fill the glue applicator with hot hide glue with the viscosity thinned out to where is can pump through the tube. Set it in your water bath to keep it hot until you need it. Preparing the joint to reglue needs some experience, but generally heating the heel of the guitar with a 60 watt bulb placed 18" away for 30 to 40 minutes will warm the whole heel through and through. It will also expand the joint a tiny bit. Make sure the joint is clampable- in other words set up cork lined pads to buffer the faces of the guitar from clamps and use them when you do a 'dry run' with the clamps. A cork lined pad-caul for the fingerboard and one for the heel cap. Usually one clamp will close a seam like this. I recommend a 12" Pony clamp" or other similar clamp. Look up Pony clamp, inexpensive at the local hardware store. If satisfied your guitar is protected and the clamping draws the seam closed move on to gluing. Two schools of thought on this one is to flow warm water into the seam to make the glue 'wick in' after it - sometimes a useful technique, but it runs the risk of swelling the seam shut before you get glue in there. Better to make a weak glue solution and use it it flow into the seam. You make be able to also put slight pressure on the neck and get the seam to open a tiny bit more. Getting the glue in the seam can go fast or it can go slow - again experience with the condition of the seam and how to treat it is important. It could go two or more ways - one way is you squirt hot glue in the seam and it splooges out the sides and bottom of the seam and flows back out the top of the seam. That is really good. Slap the seam shut, clamp it up, check alignment and clean up the out side with a damp cloth. If the glue does not just gush in and flow all over in the seam you may have to nurse the glue in there little by little with mechanical action. If you pump some liquid glue in there you might have to also pump the seam open and closed a few times to get the glue to pressure squeeze down into the deeper part of the seam. You can do this a couple times adding more glue between manipulations of the seam. Rather quickly the seam may become swollen and not be open enough to get the glue in there. You ave to make a judgment call on whether you pushed enough glue in there. The important thing is to have the heel mass pre heated so the glue in the seam stays warm longer. You also have to determine of observe that there can be glue in the seam already and the reason is did not make a great joint in the fort place is because the joint got too cold before clamping. That condition mixed with a bit of low humidity will open a seam. No big deal, warming the heel mass, adding new thinned glue and clamping for one day will usually fix this issue for life. These things happen. Wood is wood and makers are human, and players need heated rooms. And fat bottom girls still make the rocking world go round.
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