ca glue and baking soda trick

[old_picker]

any one tried this to fill a too deep nut slot?

[oz tradie]

No but I'm all ears. What does this combination do?
Turn into some sort of plastic composite? I'm intrigued.

(And Ray, the amp is effin great..........and bloody loud:oo:)


Cheers, Stu

[Sir Stinkalot]

I tried it recently after reading about it on these forums and it seems to work well. It accelarates the drying time and also acts a filler. Only problem is that it ends up as a white blob of solid fill. Ok if it cant be seen but not much good if visible.

[rhoads56]

It doesnt need to be baking soda. ANY dust will work, including bone dust, graphite, tusq, etc etc.

[old_picker]

tried it and worked a treat
i cut a slot slightly too deep and just dropped some baking soda in the slot a dab of liquid ca and it went like off very hard in a few seconds
filed the slot back a bit, polished with 800 grit and it fixed the problem

as perry says i you could use anything, but the ca and baking soda kind of reacts and goes off really quick - you prolly have to wait a bit for other material to go off - like Sir Stinkalot says it is white and needs a little touch up with some back paint or texta - the nut is black CF - if it was bone or tusq it might need a little more fiddle to cover it up

it tricky dobbing a tiny bit of CA in that slot without getting it everywhere :oo:

[contrebasse]

ebony sanding dust and CA is great for filling and hiding cracks/splits/tearout in a DB fingerboard, too.

[Paul B]

Works fine, I've used it on a bone nut.

Wouldn't use it on a nut that wasn't made of bone, ivory, or tusq tho. The colours wouldn't match and it'd look amatuerish.