Music Trade Review
Issue: 1925 Vol. 80 N. 18 - Page 45
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MAY
THE
2, 1925
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
45
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Increasing Use of Casein
Glue in the Factories
Cold Water Glue Especially Utilized in Flat
Work Such as the Tops of Grand Pianos
An address on the various uses of casein glue
was given recently before the Grand Rapids
Industrial Executives Club by W. F. Leicester,
of New York, and in addition to describing the
properties of this product he touched on its
application in the glue rooms of piano facto-
ries. Mr. Leicester pointed out that casein was
developed during the war under the stimulus
of the demand for water-proof plywood for
aeroplane construction in 1916, 1917 and 1918.
Since the war the use of casein glue in the
woodworking industry of this country has be-
come as wide as the country is big.
Casein glue differs from vegetable and ani-
mal glue due to the fact that when mixed in
cold water the resulting glue after it sets be-
comes insoluble. It throws off moisure rap-
idly. This becomes an advantage in panel work,
as the seasoning or drying-out period after
gluing need not be excessive. Four or five days
is usually enough for five-ply tops and similar
construction. The advantage of casein glue
here is that there are few complaints from the
assembly department on account of warping.
This is why casein glue is used in the manu-
facture of such high-grade articles as the tops
of grand pianos, which must remain perfectly
flat. In gluing up fancy veneer, which is usu-
ally subject to checking and generally diffi-
cult to control, we find that in using casein glue,
provided a thin spread of glue is used and the
stack of panels is quickly placed under pressure,
checking is virtually a thing of the past. The
causes of and remedy for checking have been
and always will be subjects for discussion; but
we can agree that it is due largely to distor-
tion caused by glue moisture, and it is an ad-
vantage of casein glue that such glue puts less
moisture into a given thickness of panel than
any other adhesive commonly used for veneer-
ing work. Casein glue, once it has set, does
not lose its strength by exposure to moisture
or heat. This quality in the glue enables it
to hold down every fibre of fancy veneer under
adverse conditions, and has a tendency to con-
trol not only ordinary checking but also the
raising of hair lines along a veneer joint.
In his address Mr. Leicester recommended
the selection of the best types of glue, staling
that glue is a small item. "The grand piano
that sells for $2,000 has ten pounds of glue in
its make-up," he stated. "Why trouble very
much about the cost of ten pounds of glue?
Does it matter whether this ten pounds cost $1
or $1.80? What we need to do to establish
the reputation of high-grade American furni-
ture, not only in our own country, but through-
out the world, is to build it right and use the
best and most durable materials obtainable,
whether glue, shellac, varnish or any other
article."
Buying of American
Walnut Shows Increase
Most Mills Oversold on Better Grades—General
Conditions in the Hardwood Production
Field
The buying of American walnut during the
greater part of the past year was extremely
heavy in comparison with the same period one
year ago. Production at the various mills re-
mains in a peculiar position. Most of them
are oversold on the grades of F. A. S. and
Selects; at the same time, stocks No. 1 Common
and No. 2 Common remain in a somewhat un-
balanced position. Some of the mills have
begun a policy of retrenching, withdrawing
from the market for logs, which means a
gradual slowing down of production.
Market reports on Northern hardwoods, re-
cently made public, show a production of 397,-
430,000 feet in the twelve months prior to March
1, 1925, as compared with a cut of 457,919,000
feet in the corresponding period of a year ago.
While the cut of hardwoods in the year pre-
ceding March, 1925, was 65,000,000 feet over
the shipments of 1924, the cut of the same
period in 1923 was only 373,000 feet over the
shipments in that period, which means increased
slocks on not far from 65,000,000 feet. The
total stocks on hand in the northern woods
on March 1 were 135,425,000 feet, and of this
only 3 per cent was firsts and seconds; fully
40 per cent was No. 2 and No. 3 common on
grade and about 40 per cent was piled No. 2
common and better.
The total dry stocks in March, 1924, wore
only 84,640,000 feet and in March, 1925, were
128,182,000 feet, which is not anything of a
handicap on an ordinary volume of demand,
properly to be expected this year.
Aiding Reforestation
Write for a sample can of Behlen's
Vamish Crack Eradicates and try it.
Once you learn how much it means to
you in the saving of time on your refin-
ishing jobs by eliminating the necessity
of scraping off old varnish and shellac,
and how much more satisfactory are
the results, because of the better sur-
face it gives to work on, you, like
others, will continue to use it.
Write to-day.
MADISON, WIS., April 25.—A step on the re-
forestation program, by providing tax relief on
forest lands, is foreseen here in the proposed
State constitutional amendment provided for in
a resolution by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The resolution would amend the taxing clause
of the State constitution to promote improve-
ments, including forests.
PHILIP W. OETTING & SON, Inc.
213 East 19th Street. New York
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT HAMMER AND DAMPER FELTS
GRAND AND UPRIGHT HAMMERS
Made of Weickert Felt
ARJNOVELTYCO.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Anilines
Shellacs
exclusive manufacturers of
Stains
Fillers
10-12 Christopher St., New York
N«»r 8th Ay*., and 8th St.
Piaixo Beivekes
and Phisie Cabinets
GOSHEN
Writ* for catalog and. d* ta its
INDIANA
Circassian Walnut Veneers
Are Once More Available
Genuine Wood From Russian Caucasus Re-
cently Received by the Ohio Veneer Co. of
New York
The belief is current among piano manufac-
turers and superintendents, according to G. H.
Vaughan, Eastern representative of the Ohio
Veneer Co., Cincinnati, O., that little genuine
Circassian walnut has been obtainable in this
country since the war. This wood, which some
imagine comes from Italian sources, is ob-
tained in reality from the Russian Caucasus
section, from which it is floated to the Black
Sea for shipment. During the world war, sup-
plies were naturally cut off and many substi-
tutes came into vogue in place of this hand-
some veneer.
The difficulties of obtaining genuine Circas-
sian walnut have been met for some time, how-
ever, and the Ohio Veneer Co. has succeeded
in securing a large lot of this wood by direct
shipment. "I have shown samples of the lot
to several piano manufacturers," said Mr.
Vaughan this week to a representative of the
Review, "and they have been particularly
pleased with it, placing substantial orders. The
figuration of this genuine Circassian walnut is
distinctive and is attractive when used cither in
•A period model or in a straight style."
Mr. Vaughan stated that he has recently been
doing a good volume of business with Eastern
piano manufacturers in American walnut and
that he had introduced a new sample of curly
maple which is gaining popularity as a panel
effect in the two-toned finish.
Pneumatic Leather Conditions
Ted L. Lutkins, Jr., of the pneumatic leather
concern of T. I.. Lutkins, Inc., New York,
stated this week tliat the firm's business with
player-piano and organ manufacturing plants
this Spring was up to expectations, and that in
some instances manufacturers were placing ad-
vance orders in excess of their customary re-
quirements. With respect to the primary mar-
kets for lambskins, from which the pneumatic
pouch leathers arc made, Mr. Lutkins said that
a better grade of stock was available this year
and that the lioof-and-mouth disease had been
practically stamped out in England. The sever-
ity of this disease last year, however, has ham-
pered breeding considerably and had worked
for keeping general prices of this product
rather high.
To Exploit Oak
A number of suggestions for giving public-
ity to oak were received by the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Institute at a regional meeting,
held at Ashevillc, N. C, recently. The interest
being displayed in the campaign is encouraging,
according to the report of J. H. Townsend.
WHITE, SON CO.
Manufacturer* of
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO
LEATHERS
530-540 Atlantic Ave., BOSTON, MASS.
MAY
THE
2, 1925
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
45
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Increasing Use of Casein
Glue in the Factories
Cold Water Glue Especially Utilized in Flat
Work Such as the Tops of Grand Pianos
An address on the various uses of casein glue
was given recently before the Grand Rapids
Industrial Executives Club by W. F. Leicester,
of New York, and in addition to describing the
properties of this product he touched on its
application in the glue rooms of piano facto-
ries. Mr. Leicester pointed out that casein was
developed during the war under the stimulus
of the demand for water-proof plywood for
aeroplane construction in 1916, 1917 and 1918.
Since the war the use of casein glue in the
woodworking industry of this country has be-
come as wide as the country is big.
Casein glue differs from vegetable and ani-
mal glue due to the fact that when mixed in
cold water the resulting glue after it sets be-
comes insoluble. It throws off moisure rap-
idly. This becomes an advantage in panel work,
as the seasoning or drying-out period after
gluing need not be excessive. Four or five days
is usually enough for five-ply tops and similar
construction. The advantage of casein glue
here is that there are few complaints from the
assembly department on account of warping.
This is why casein glue is used in the manu-
facture of such high-grade articles as the tops
of grand pianos, which must remain perfectly
flat. In gluing up fancy veneer, which is usu-
ally subject to checking and generally diffi-
cult to control, we find that in using casein glue,
provided a thin spread of glue is used and the
stack of panels is quickly placed under pressure,
checking is virtually a thing of the past. The
causes of and remedy for checking have been
and always will be subjects for discussion; but
we can agree that it is due largely to distor-
tion caused by glue moisture, and it is an ad-
vantage of casein glue that such glue puts less
moisture into a given thickness of panel than
any other adhesive commonly used for veneer-
ing work. Casein glue, once it has set, does
not lose its strength by exposure to moisture
or heat. This quality in the glue enables it
to hold down every fibre of fancy veneer under
adverse conditions, and has a tendency to con-
trol not only ordinary checking but also the
raising of hair lines along a veneer joint.
In his address Mr. Leicester recommended
the selection of the best types of glue, staling
that glue is a small item. "The grand piano
that sells for $2,000 has ten pounds of glue in
its make-up," he stated. "Why trouble very
much about the cost of ten pounds of glue?
Does it matter whether this ten pounds cost $1
or $1.80? What we need to do to establish
the reputation of high-grade American furni-
ture, not only in our own country, but through-
out the world, is to build it right and use the
best and most durable materials obtainable,
whether glue, shellac, varnish or any other
article."
Buying of American
Walnut Shows Increase
Most Mills Oversold on Better Grades—General
Conditions in the Hardwood Production
Field
The buying of American walnut during the
greater part of the past year was extremely
heavy in comparison with the same period one
year ago. Production at the various mills re-
mains in a peculiar position. Most of them
are oversold on the grades of F. A. S. and
Selects; at the same time, stocks No. 1 Common
and No. 2 Common remain in a somewhat un-
balanced position. Some of the mills have
begun a policy of retrenching, withdrawing
from the market for logs, which means a
gradual slowing down of production.
Market reports on Northern hardwoods, re-
cently made public, show a production of 397,-
430,000 feet in the twelve months prior to March
1, 1925, as compared with a cut of 457,919,000
feet in the corresponding period of a year ago.
While the cut of hardwoods in the year pre-
ceding March, 1925, was 65,000,000 feet over
the shipments of 1924, the cut of the same
period in 1923 was only 373,000 feet over the
shipments in that period, which means increased
slocks on not far from 65,000,000 feet. The
total stocks on hand in the northern woods
on March 1 were 135,425,000 feet, and of this
only 3 per cent was firsts and seconds; fully
40 per cent was No. 2 and No. 3 common on
grade and about 40 per cent was piled No. 2
common and better.
The total dry stocks in March, 1924, wore
only 84,640,000 feet and in March, 1925, were
128,182,000 feet, which is not anything of a
handicap on an ordinary volume of demand,
properly to be expected this year.
Aiding Reforestation
Write for a sample can of Behlen's
Vamish Crack Eradicates and try it.
Once you learn how much it means to
you in the saving of time on your refin-
ishing jobs by eliminating the necessity
of scraping off old varnish and shellac,
and how much more satisfactory are
the results, because of the better sur-
face it gives to work on, you, like
others, will continue to use it.
Write to-day.
MADISON, WIS., April 25.—A step on the re-
forestation program, by providing tax relief on
forest lands, is foreseen here in the proposed
State constitutional amendment provided for in
a resolution by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The resolution would amend the taxing clause
of the State constitution to promote improve-
ments, including forests.
PHILIP W. OETTING & SON, Inc.
213 East 19th Street. New York
Sole Agents for
WEICKERT HAMMER AND DAMPER FELTS
GRAND AND UPRIGHT HAMMERS
Made of Weickert Felt
ARJNOVELTYCO.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Anilines
Shellacs
exclusive manufacturers of
Stains
Fillers
10-12 Christopher St., New York
N«»r 8th Ay*., and 8th St.
Piaixo Beivekes
and Phisie Cabinets
GOSHEN
Writ* for catalog and. d* ta its
INDIANA
Circassian Walnut Veneers
Are Once More Available
Genuine Wood From Russian Caucasus Re-
cently Received by the Ohio Veneer Co. of
New York
The belief is current among piano manufac-
turers and superintendents, according to G. H.
Vaughan, Eastern representative of the Ohio
Veneer Co., Cincinnati, O., that little genuine
Circassian walnut has been obtainable in this
country since the war. This wood, which some
imagine comes from Italian sources, is ob-
tained in reality from the Russian Caucasus
section, from which it is floated to the Black
Sea for shipment. During the world war, sup-
plies were naturally cut off and many substi-
tutes came into vogue in place of this hand-
some veneer.
The difficulties of obtaining genuine Circas-
sian walnut have been met for some time, how-
ever, and the Ohio Veneer Co. has succeeded
in securing a large lot of this wood by direct
shipment. "I have shown samples of the lot
to several piano manufacturers," said Mr.
Vaughan this week to a representative of the
Review, "and they have been particularly
pleased with it, placing substantial orders. The
figuration of this genuine Circassian walnut is
distinctive and is attractive when used cither in
•A period model or in a straight style."
Mr. Vaughan stated that he has recently been
doing a good volume of business with Eastern
piano manufacturers in American walnut and
that he had introduced a new sample of curly
maple which is gaining popularity as a panel
effect in the two-toned finish.
Pneumatic Leather Conditions
Ted L. Lutkins, Jr., of the pneumatic leather
concern of T. I.. Lutkins, Inc., New York,
stated this week tliat the firm's business with
player-piano and organ manufacturing plants
this Spring was up to expectations, and that in
some instances manufacturers were placing ad-
vance orders in excess of their customary re-
quirements. With respect to the primary mar-
kets for lambskins, from which the pneumatic
pouch leathers arc made, Mr. Lutkins said that
a better grade of stock was available this year
and that the lioof-and-mouth disease had been
practically stamped out in England. The sever-
ity of this disease last year, however, has ham-
pered breeding considerably and had worked
for keeping general prices of this product
rather high.
To Exploit Oak
A number of suggestions for giving public-
ity to oak were received by the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Institute at a regional meeting,
held at Ashevillc, N. C, recently. The interest
being displayed in the campaign is encouraging,
according to the report of J. H. Townsend.
WHITE, SON CO.
Manufacturer* of
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO
LEATHERS
530-540 Atlantic Ave., BOSTON, MASS.
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