sunburst
Dec-05-2007, 4:34pm
I have heard and read about De-Glue Goo, and I've been wanting to try it, but until last week I hadn't "gotten around to it".
Anyway, a friend of mine who works in a shop where I used to work said the "new guy" there is the guy who makes De-Glue Goo, and that he wanted to stop by and meet me. They stopped by one morning, and the "new guy" turned out to be a furniture restorer whom I worked for, briefly, about 25 years ago. We worked together at a cabinet shop for a while after that, and now he's doing part of the work I used to do for the instrument maker I used to work for.
So that's the "small world" aspect of the situation, and here are my initial impressions of the product.
He gave me a sample bottle of De-Glue Goo, and I've tried in on a couple of things. First, I glued a spruce scrap to a rosewood scrap with hot hide glue, deliberately leaving some squeeze-out. After the glue dried, I coated the squeeze-out with De-Glue Goo, and scraped the glue right off with the edge of a "pre-approved" credit card. The color did not bleed from the rosewood onto the spruce, and both types of wood show no evidence of the procedure.
Next experiment, I'm restoring a 1941 Martin D-18. It's had an unknown number of bridges glued on with several kinds of glue, over the years. I coated the bridge "scar" with De-Glue Goo, and the various glues started to look about like they did before they dried. There was a lot of white wood glue filling voids where the spruce had been chipped out, and even some of the original hide glue that Martin used. It took some scraping, several applications, and some brushing with an old tooth brush, but I eventually got all the glue and adhesive off, leaving the wood looking clean and almost new. The lacquer on the guitar top around the bridge area shows no signs of and contact with the De-Glue Goo.
So anyway, the stuff works, I know the guy who makes it, and I know that he is a pro who knows wood, and glue, and furniture, and finishes, and is now building instruments. That's where I learned a lot of the stuff I know about wood, glue, and finishes.
Just thought I'd pass along the info to other builders and repairers because I can imagine many uses in both building and repair.
Anyway, a friend of mine who works in a shop where I used to work said the "new guy" there is the guy who makes De-Glue Goo, and that he wanted to stop by and meet me. They stopped by one morning, and the "new guy" turned out to be a furniture restorer whom I worked for, briefly, about 25 years ago. We worked together at a cabinet shop for a while after that, and now he's doing part of the work I used to do for the instrument maker I used to work for.
So that's the "small world" aspect of the situation, and here are my initial impressions of the product.
He gave me a sample bottle of De-Glue Goo, and I've tried in on a couple of things. First, I glued a spruce scrap to a rosewood scrap with hot hide glue, deliberately leaving some squeeze-out. After the glue dried, I coated the squeeze-out with De-Glue Goo, and scraped the glue right off with the edge of a "pre-approved" credit card. The color did not bleed from the rosewood onto the spruce, and both types of wood show no evidence of the procedure.
Next experiment, I'm restoring a 1941 Martin D-18. It's had an unknown number of bridges glued on with several kinds of glue, over the years. I coated the bridge "scar" with De-Glue Goo, and the various glues started to look about like they did before they dried. There was a lot of white wood glue filling voids where the spruce had been chipped out, and even some of the original hide glue that Martin used. It took some scraping, several applications, and some brushing with an old tooth brush, but I eventually got all the glue and adhesive off, leaving the wood looking clean and almost new. The lacquer on the guitar top around the bridge area shows no signs of and contact with the De-Glue Goo.
So anyway, the stuff works, I know the guy who makes it, and I know that he is a pro who knows wood, and glue, and furniture, and finishes, and is now building instruments. That's where I learned a lot of the stuff I know about wood, glue, and finishes.
Just thought I'd pass along the info to other builders and repairers because I can imagine many uses in both building and repair.