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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 11092102, member: 360"]When it comes to doing the skiver, keep in mind that the glue is the only thing holding the wooden writing leaves onto the box. </p><p><br /></p><p>So you gotta put the leaves down, apply the glue, and then put the skiver over the top, so everything depends on the strength of the glue and the skiver. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the fancy skivers which are a bit thin, one technique was to put in a thinner under-material beneath the skiver (like a bit of cotton or whatever) for extra strength. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any decent crafting/general purpose glue will do. I have seen some restoration videos which used something akin to wallpaper-paste to glue them down, although that seems a bit excessive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 11092102, member: 360"]When it comes to doing the skiver, keep in mind that the glue is the only thing holding the wooden writing leaves onto the box. So you gotta put the leaves down, apply the glue, and then put the skiver over the top, so everything depends on the strength of the glue and the skiver. For the fancy skivers which are a bit thin, one technique was to put in a thinner under-material beneath the skiver (like a bit of cotton or whatever) for extra strength. Any decent crafting/general purpose glue will do. I have seen some restoration videos which used something akin to wallpaper-paste to glue them down, although that seems a bit excessive.[/QUOTE]
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