Glue to bond bare wood to shellac-ed wood
Dave Mount
>Hello all--
I guess I should start this with "I have a friend that. . ." so I wouldn't have to expose my own idiotic maneuver to explain my question. . .
My mother bought a beginners mountain dulcimer at a local music event, and the body is a corrugated cardboard (trapezoidal) box (really, I kid you not). She started asking me whether I could make some small molding to cover the edges where the corrugations can be seen. There's no way I could see investing time dressing up a cardboard box, so I did some surfing around and learned enough to make a proper body, which I did from birch (teardrop shape). The plan was to cut the cardboard body off and glue the fretboard onto the new body.
The new body turned out better than I might have expected and I was anxious to get it done and to her, so I started putting on a shellac finish. . .completely forgetting to mask off the center of the face so I could glue the fretboard on (the existing fretboard is a not-particularly-dense tropical wood and is unfinished).
So, now I need to know what glue I could use that would stick to shellac and to unfinished wood. I can easily rough up the shellac to give it some tooth, but I'd rather not strip it down if I don't have to. Would epoxy work? Anything less exotic that would work?
Thanks for any help,
Dave
Dave Mount, northeastern MN