gluing ivories

[Jurgen Goering]

I am not sure I understand correctly:
Buy the expensive glue wafers, scrape off the glue and use it, throw 
away the glue wafer?  Doesn't sound practical or economical to use the 
wafer as a source of white glue.

Personally, I use fish glue whitened with titanium dioxide which has 
been mentioned as a whitener.  So it is a whitened natural cold glue.  
I use it with the heated brass claus to speed up the process.  In some 
cases I paint a coat of glue onto the ivory, key or both if the key is 
dark and the ivory translucent.  Let dry, then glue as usual.

Jurgen Goering


On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:08, W.B. wrote:
>  One way of gluing ivories that I have not seen on the list.  Take a 
> couple of ivory wafers and dip them in warm water.   Scrape the glue 
> off with a butter knife on to some clean surface and then use that 
> glue to replace the ivories.   Now that I think of it, one could 
> scrape the glue directly to the key top.
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