Felix Habel

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Are you going to make it??? keep me posted!! If I find more information I will tell you!
Felix
13 years ago
Hi Tom,
the glue is used for glueing the parts together that makes the completely restoreable (the glue is reversable so that any glue joint can be opened without damaging). But in the late 18th century in Mittenwald/Germany the varnished with hide glue!!! Try to imagine the mess when you want to restore such an instrument. I have worked on two such instruments...
I don't really know how to dry it. I had a quality from France that had the signs of a metal grid on the backside... Maybe first on a glass surface and when it has become thick jelly put it on the grid. The french glue I had was 1/4" thick. You had to put in a cloth and breake it with a hammer into small chips otherwise it takes too long to swell.
13 years ago

darktwist McCoy wrote:I also feel like it's wrong to call it safe....


ok, ok.... I'll don't do that again. I think this is a place where adult people gather that are conscious about nature's power. First: I have problems to accept that someone declares illegal a plant that grows spontaneously all around and I feel free to use it if I know what it does. But this is a political point of view ( my own one!). Anyway in this thread someone suggests other illegal plants that are fun to smoke...
Second: we should make neat difference between smoking dried leafes and drinking the boiling af the seeds! I'm aware of the danger it brings but I never suggested that! I was only talking about smoking the leafes! I do this for some years now. I first heard of it in Portugal from some freak friends but then I read about it in a very serious book about medical plants written by a German pharmacist W. Pahlow. It contains alcaloids like tobacco and coffe so: smoke responsibly! It's up to you...
13 years ago

darktwist McCoy wrote:I would strongly urge caution regarding the post about jimson weed/datura. Jimson weed or any datura is nothing to casually fiddle around with....


tranquillo! Datura smoking is safe and has been used for centuries! look up "datura stramonium asthma" on google.... legal or illegal wouldn't bother me... it grows spontaneously!!
13 years ago
A very good lung medicine is jimson weed, thorn apple or datura stramonium. Don't be scared.... no psychic side effects! Dried leaves are part of herbal cigarettes sold for people who suffer asthma. It should grow more or less everywhere. I like the taste!
Felix
13 years ago
Hi, I'm a vioinmakerin Italy and we use only hide glue. I've recently found this description in a chemistry book (it is for hide glue made from animal bones): let a finely cleaned animal bone soak in 10% hydrochloric acid (HCl) for some days. Then wash it with diluted soda to take off acid residue. Cut this jelly-like piece of bone into pieces and boil with water to solve it up. When it cools down you obtain a thick jelly which you can dry in thin plates to conserve it and on occasion hammer off some chips and soak in cold water. When swollen up heat slowly in water bath, should not boil (!) and use as superstrong glue! Hope this was helpful. Otherwise refer to wikipedia...
Felix
13 years ago