Refurbishing a set of Pakistani Bagpipes Part 3 of 4.

[@leaddeficiency6102]

Just wondering, if your adding a hardener to the wood to make it function more like Blackwood, should you bore out the wood before you harden it so the wood will still have the resin in the wood to improve sound ?

[@sandiegobagpiper]

The impregnating liquid will harden. Then I am going to bore them out. I didn’t bore it out first because there’s always hard impregnating liquid left on the outside after I put the pieces into the toaster oven.

[@leaddeficiency6102]

@@sandiegobagpiper So it's only to keep the wood from falling apart ? I was thinking the resin was also being used to improve the resonance of the drones ?

[@T.Ackland]

Interesting project.
Have you thought that cooking the stock has dried the wood's relative humidity to 0, thus making it lighter?
A good test of your impregnation would be to wrap the stock in a damp rag and store it in that bucket and weigh it after a day or 2.

[@sandiegobagpiper]

I did think exactly that. I didn’t show the finished weight of the bass stock because my scale broke. I have purchased a new one. I’ll get it weighed and either update the video or put it in the description.
Instead of doing what you suggested, I just oiled them with bore oil. The wood really soaked in the oil.