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violinvic

Post subject: Maple filler.

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:18 pm

Cocobolo

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First name: Victor
Last Name: Seal
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Does anyone know of a good filler to match Maple? I have a small gap between the purfling and maple that I would like to fill. Thanx, Vic.

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Ti-Roux

Post subject: Re: Maple filler.

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:24 pm

Koa

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First name: Francis
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Hard to fill a gap and make it look white or maple-ish. Maple dust with glue will turn black or something like that, not really clean. Fill with something transparent like epoxy or gel CA will do the same... You should try to close that gap, if possible. Do you have a picture of that?

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violinvic

Post subject: Re: Maple filler.

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:08 pm

Cocobolo

There is no closing it up. It is on a fiddle. Thanx, Vic.

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WaddyThomson

Post subject: Re: Maple filler.

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:48 pm

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You'd be better off trying to splice a sliver of Maple in the gap.

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Jim Watts

Post subject: Re: Maple filler.

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:21 pm

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WaddyThomson wrote:

You'd be better off trying to splice a sliver of Maple in the gap.

Totally agree, way better.

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fric

Post subject: Re: Maple filler.

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:58 am

Cocobolo

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ha, for the future build you have to know that maple will not forgive you any mistake

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Mike Lindstrom

Post subject: Re: Maple filler.

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:57 am

Koa

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violinvic wrote:

There is no closing it up. It is on a fiddle. Thanx, Vic.

Can you say more about that?

Mike

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Dave Stewart

Post subject: Re: Maple filler.

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:19 am

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Mike Lindstrom wrote:

violinvic wrote:

There is no closing it up. It is on a fiddle. Thanx, Vic.

Can you say more about that?

Mike

Violin purfling is inset (from the edge) into a channel..... methinks the channel got a bit too wide for the purfling somewhere. The purfling is usually mashed in with HHG, which does a lot of gap filling by itself.

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