sake

[labraid]

Hey guys, I dunno how many of you work with wood and alcohol at the same time, but in Popular Science they kinda recommended it. This guy wanted to make speaker cones out of wood but couldn't get the thin veneer to form into a cone properly without breaking. In Japan they use sake to soften squids into an edible form, this guy did it with the wood veneer and bent his veneer into a speaker cone form and it worked... I'm gonna try it this week for some wood bindings I have to construct. Hope it makes the work easier and less splintery. Lemme know how your trials come out if you do the same.....

[Bruce Evans]

It's got to smell better than the amonia method. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[mandroid]

JVC sells mini systems with wood cone drivers in them, I note.

[Jim Rowland]

I knew a gitar picker who worked with wood and alcohol trying build himself an axe. He has now switched to harp.
Jim

[Luthier Vandross]

lmao

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[labraid]

I tried the sake thing, it worked "ok"... Heat won the race though. I was imagining a piece of wood coming out of the treatment a bit rubbery, but it wasn't the case, just more flexible than normal...

[John Bertotti]

sake, do you mean the rice wine? I had some in japan and it seemed quite strong. I wonder if the alcohol content is enough to ignite? Wont regular alcohol work just as well? John

[Arto]

Sake won´t definitely ignite, it´s really wine, not spirits. I think the alcohol percent is usually in the 14-16 range. There´s another Japanese beverage called shochu which is slightly stronger, somewhat above 20 percent, and tastes somewhat like diluted-down vodka to me. The Japanese like to take everything stronger than sake with (often warm) water. I was in Japan in the 80s and my friends thought I was a hard drinker, drinking shochu without water... ;-)