It took a whole week to get the glue off my hands! I am making my new 'Elizabethan' harp, Mystical, with 4 sets of strings which means it will have a luted soundboard and therefore a different design. I started joining the top of the soundbox to the 'neck' of the harp and discovered a problem ... screws and drillbits are just not long enough. I tried to buy some - must be very specialist as the local DIY shop couldn't help. Nevermind I thought - I will use some of that expanding glue.....arghhhhhhh....(as it turned out).
The plastic container of glue had been put deliberately to the back of the cupboard after the last attempt. It sets so fast that I could feel that the top half was solid, but, if I sawed the bottle in half (I am impossibly practical - 'waste not, want not'). I thought I was prepared - a metal tray, old honey jar at hand to pour it into, masking tape and plastic stuck all over the harp, newspaper on the floor, etc etc.
Two hours later it had finally set hard and I had finished scraping all the 'runs' off the harp and had trimmed my hair from its new fashion of 'christmas-tree-like' baubles. It burst straight through the masking tape, managed to fill the tray and expand to the table and all attempts at keeping my hands clean were futile. ... BUT ... it did solve the problem ... however ... do I do this again or can a better method be found?
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If you do a Google search for "extra long drill bits" (or even "long drill bits") you will find quite a few places from which you can order them, but they are expensive! They cost over ten pounds each, with prices going up to 25 pounds or so for 16-inch ones. Your best bet is probably eBay, where they are much cheaper. I have just found someone there selling three 12-inch drill bits with diameters of 8mm, 10mm, and 12mm, at £3.99 for the lot plus £1.99 postage. You can get extra long screws as well; what type do you need and how long should they to be?
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to hearing the new quadruple harp.