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In Reply to: C37 anyone tried it on single driver spk cones?? posted by ljordan on July 07, 1999 at 17:12:43:
I prefer hairspray.
Are you jokeing ??
Only a little bit.Because the hairspray response seemed a bit flip I went back and added the longer remark.Hairspray is just laquer + solvent + propellant + scent.
C37 is real different stuff than typical nitrocellulose or acrylic lacquer. I'm waving a bottle of it under my nose at the moment ( hey for the money, all possible recreational enhancement should be extracted from that pee wee bottle) and it has smell more akin to model paint thinner, along with some other sort of oil and turps stuff going on, more like varnish than lacquer. Much deeper color than typical lacquer as well.I have used it in the past on metal drivers and it can cut the zing a bit. So yeah, it did something positive, but on the other hand I didn't buy the bottle, it was sent to me by a bud. The retail price seems pretty expensive for a nail polish bottle full of the stuff. If cost is a concern, one might check out Dammar varnish at an art supply store. I've been told it gives a similar effect for less mullah.
BTW I've been told recently that the latest theory is it wasn't the varnish per se that made a Strad sound the way it does. I'm told the varnish used seems to have opened the individual cells in the wood's structure, and this seems to be the thing that makes a Strad really different than the competition across town.
So I've been told, anyway.
I see the problem here.De-lignify isn't in the dictionary(I just checked).Lignin is an amorphus polymetric substance related to cellulose that together with cellulose forms the woody cell walls and the cementing material between them in trees(and plants).Soaking the logs in water for many years leaches out the lignin(de-lignify)or opens the cells up.How the surface finish soaks into these open cells is a very large part of the sound.Not only that but as the instrument is played the vibrations change the cross-linkages in the polymers(in the finish).Straight age does not have the same effect.It must be under tension(strung)and played.My interest in this is in part from a brother,sister,and brother-in-law that are into wood technology(with degrees in forestry)a friend that is a cabinet builder and musician(and has built two violins)and of course my interest in things audio(I am a mere wood butcher,I let them build the boxes).If there was enough interest we could have C37 analyzed and have a 55 gallon drum made up for ~$1000(I have done things like this before)and sell it for 1/10th the price.
OK just how much is it??
DM 195,-In Murican bucks that is apparently $101.646. My, but that's a big ol' number for a nail polish bottle full o the stuff. I gotta rethink my profit structure...
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