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I can say that your experience should be pretty close to ZERO! An we all know that the question here is on spray can and not the liquid one! DEFT is nitrocelluloce! Period and end of disscussion, I e-mail them and I wish I had their responce to post it here! Just go to Lee Valley and check the description. All my guitars, after the LP have been finished with it. This 2 are for you to go swim at... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Maiden69/DSC02223.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Maiden69/DSC01898.jpg and once you are done! You can go stand next to this one to dry out!!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Maiden69/DSC02045.jpg And silvertone! ( I wish I know your name! Good Lord that's a darn long name to write!) go here to post # 17 ← O.K. I'll admit that I have not tried the spray can stuff lately. Maybe the product has changed.I've been making instruments for a living for the past 25 years and have only sprayed about 700 new instruments and maybe another 500 refinishes and a few thousand other minor repair finishes. There's a lot to learn in the finishing department. I have seen regular nitrocellulose and Deft turn into a crazed mess when mixed. Very similar to mixing acrylics and nitro if you've done that. I'm always willing to learn though. I'll get a can of the spray stuff and see what it does over what we call "real nitro" in the guitar trade. As long as you're using just one product at a time, of course compatability does not matter. It's later down the line that problems occur to some unsuspecting repairperson. I'll let you know how that turns out. -Bob

My experience is that Deft never truly hardens. It is also very incompatible with nitrocellulose lacquers, even though it says that it is nitrocellulose on the label.

For anyone interested, I found the glue in question at Ace Hardware. Looked in a lot of other local stores before I found it. Looking forward to trying it.-Bob

Craig-Thanks, Bob

Craig, I've not found that glue. Can you tell me what kind of a store, or actually the store by name, that you buy the glue in? Also, is it flamable? If it's not, I can get someone on the Mainland to send me some. Thanks, Bob

Mattia is right. ukes are generally acoustic instruments. The adjustable bridge thing is something found on mandolins, but not on ukes. First off, it's spelled ukulele not ukelele. I've made 450 or so of these things over the past 25 years and have come to appreciate them, though I still prefer to make steel string and classical guitars. Here in Hawaii you see them used in everything from Jawaiian reggae to classical. There are many builders on the web, but be careful and make sure you get a money back guarantee. A lot of handmade ukes either don't play in tune, or simply don't play. Make sure your instrument is built in a dehumidiefied shop if you live in a dry part of the country. How much you spend is not always a factor either. In Hawaii a lot of instruments are priced high simply because they have some flashy curly koa on them. You can learn a lot by doing research on a site like Bounty Music on Maui. They have tons of uke links. Good luck!-Bob

Ryan, Thanks for that info. Superglue works for me most of the time too, but sometimes it does come loose or saturate the paper in such a way that the lines become difficult to see. That's why I'd like to try this 3M stuff if I can find it.-Bob

Thanks Craig. Hawaii is like the Wild West, as far as chemicals go. It should be available here somewhere.-Bob

Thanks Craig. Hawaii is like the Wild West, as far as chemicals go. It should be available here somewhere.-Bob

I noticed in the Lavin tips on inlay he mentioned a glue by 3M that he used to hold the paper patterns down during cutting. Since everything else I've used, superglue, yellow glue, etc., only works part of the time and only on some materials, I'd like to find a source for the 3M glue in the red tube to try it. I've looked around and and have not found it. Here in Hawaii it may not be easily available. Can anyone tell me what kind of a store they find it in and is it a Duco type of glue that I'm looking for? Thanks, Bob