The Big Kahuna
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Useful trick if it's true. I'll leave it to the experts to set me straight on the usability or otherwise of this technique.
Baking Soda and Superglue
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Beau Hannam Ukuleles
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I've done this on steel string guitars and it has held up for 5 years +
On a nylon string instrument, it would last for aaaaaaaaaagggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss
On a nylon string instrument, it would last for aaaaaaaaaagggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss
Timbuck
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On ebony nuts...I've used charcoal and CA with good results.
Titchtheclown
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To add colour I use artist chalks, sometimes called soft pastels, not oil pastels. Some of the colours don't wet easily with the ca or set up too quickly leaving a cap over dry chalk.Alternately 5 minute epoxy works great for marker dots and such like.
hoosierhiver
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The best use of superglue and baking soda that I know of is to use it on worn out vintage tuning pegs. A lot of those pegs eventually wear the inner part of the knob smooth so they slip, using the baking soda/superglue you can apply the glue, quickly put the metal peg in for the shape you want and quickly remove it and let it dry. Hope that made sense.
blue_knight_usa
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Fantastic video. I thought it would be more complicated than this but it's very straight forward. Just the right tools and your good to go. Now if I could just get myself to spend $35.00 on ONE file from Stew Mac...ouch.
BR Ukuleles
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It will set up harder than the bone or wood that you are filling. It's a very common repairman's trick to help keep the cost of the repair down.
Moore Bettah Ukuleles
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What's the baking soda do? I think medium ca by itself works just as well.
hoosierhiver
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I think it gives you a better ability to shape it and maybe a little more time.
BR Ukuleles
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Baking soda is the filler. I use bone dust with thin CA when I use this trick.
Titchtheclown
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Another superglue tip is that superglue accellerator is usually just isopropyl alcohol, which is much cheaper when sold as isopropyl alcohol rather than superglue accelerator. I use methylated spirits as a superglue accellerator, though in Australia meths now no longer contains methanol but uses a bittering agent to make it taste bad. Apparently making you go blind and killing you was found to be a disproportionate penalty for dodging alcohol tax. It also makes it safer for its intended use. I used to get cracking headaches when using the old formulation which has methanol in it.
UkeKiddinMe
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Dan Erlewine is The Man. If he says it, it's correct.
BR Ukuleles
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That I did not know. Off to give that a try.
Timbuck
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It's also an ingrediant for making chemical weapon sarin gas .
So be careful what you mix it with.
So be careful what you mix it with.Similar threads
