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| 11/01/2007: "Redemption Song"
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What do you know: the "ruined" flute I sulked about earlier has been rescued! As we whiningly recounted in that entry, a high-hopes flute got dashed 'n' trashed by careless, overhasty bore gouging.
Yesterday I thought of drilling small holes at the critical borepoints where too much had been taken out and dribbling in a tiny puddle of epoxy to replace the over-scraped material... and what do you know, it worked like a charm! Not that we'd want to make a habit of this -- I'll always favor reductive over additive borework, and will always select bamboo blanks with that principle in mind -- but on the rare occasions when too much gets removed this technique should be a lifesaver.
The epoxy-dribbling holes are easily plugged with a small glued-in bamboo peg, and throwing a wrapping over the peg leaves no visible trace of the repair.
This will still be a last-resort technique, but discovering it is wonderful: even if only 5% or 10% of my flutes are afflicted with overscraped-bore syndrome, the disproportionately demoralizing effect of those screwups can be devastating. Good to know that there's a cure at last... pics tomorrow. --r.
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