[Jewelry making - Article 01434] - Re: [Orchid] Adhesive recommendation for a sticky situation

[Ian W. Wright]

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Hi,

>     I... need an adhesive that will... a) stick to jade, 

    Straight shellac would probably be too brittle to stand up to the
    vibrations in a musical instrument. I would look at some of the low
    temperature 'hot melt' adhesives or, if you can tolerate no heat at
    all, I would make a mixture of shellac with rosin and, perhaps, even
    a bit of beeswax for better flexibility - all dissolved in mineral
    spirits and applied as a fairly stiff liquid. However, if you are
    trying to consider future repairers removing the jade at some time,
    they would normally only do so using heat as any kind of solvent
    would normally ruin the surrounding wood/plastic etc. and so I can't
    really see why you couldn't use just a little heat in the first
    place... perhaps if you elaborated a bit on the exact problem I
    could help more as I do a quite lot of musical instrument repairs to
    brass and woodwind instruments... 

Best wishes,
Ian
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
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