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padredan 05-04-2012 11:58 AM

huge, got that right, it did fill it in and i reshaped it to fill the gap for now, not really noticable, but while it was curing it was a mess, i did use two dabs on a loose erfurt grip ,then just sorta sanded it off till the grip was tight it worked well for that.

ithacaartist 05-04-2012 08:28 PM

Dan,

Hugh Clark would merge actual wood with the grip to make up for the discrepancy, blend the checkering, and stain/finish to match, same as he does for the million dollar chip. I'd recommend his work, after he's repaired two of mine. The patch will be very discrete.

DP

p.s. The Gorilla Glue can be a mess, for sure. Gotta police the joint repeatedly with a damp paper towel until the foaming action stops. The foaming is designed to work the glue into voids within a joint,so it will be well-bonded, for sure, once the foam cures into a structural matrix. I was surprised the first time I fixed some joints in a wooden chair; came down the next morning to find the joints all had blossoms of cured (by then) foam. In that case, it works OK to carefully scrape away the hardened excess.

And the buildup it provides can be handy, like when I was excising a design into the skin of a calabash gourd and realized two small elements which stuck out in relief, had been located improperly. I scraped the two offending bits off, and "moved" them over by dabbing on two dots of Gorilla Glue and then worked them down to the proper shape and thickness. If I hadn't confessed to having done it, I'd wager the majority would never catch it.


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