Re: [Harp-L] was Seydel Solist Pro (Hohner Price Increase?) now difference between Soloist and Soloist Pro

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

Sealing wood combs can be done with 'Vick's Vapo-Rub'. It has oil of  
eucalyptus in it and so is actually ok for the lungs. They use oil of  
eucalyptus in the breathing apparatus that they use in the hospitals  
to test your lung capacity. The rest of vapo-rub is really only  
petroleum jelly.

If using gas/propane, heat the Vapo-rub in a double boiler, keep it  
away from the flame. (I use electric, so I don't do that). When it is  
thin and wattery, it will artesian into the cells of the outer layer  
of wood in the few minutes you keep the comb submerged. I goes in  
deeper than bee's wax.

Pear wood is much like box wood and is relatively soft. Maple (if  
rift cut) is resistant to warping. That's why it is used for the  
fancy carvings and turnings in furniture. Unfortunately that also  
makes it resistant to absorption. Hence it's use in butcher's blocks.  
Less absorption, less germ environment.

smokey-joe