I find my wig is always falling off when playing a particularly ferocious set of reels at my local session.
Which adhesive do you, the people on this forum use?
I usually use Hair Hat Araldite or, best of all, SyrupStik but is there any other product more traditional and suitable for the Trad Irish whistle player?
By the way (off topic) does anyone else collect potato peelers or hot water bottles (HWB) of the famous like what I does?
Why would you want to wear a wig, anyway? In the Traditional Music world, baldness is surely an asset. You only have to look at Brendan Begley, Cathal McConnell, Martin Fay, S(k)in(h)ead O'Connor... My musical credentials have increased tenfold since the hair fell off me coconut.
But, if you want traditional, flour and water is the way to go. If you don't mind venturing into foreign territory (and why not - half the tunes are foreign anyway), garlic juice is a much stronger, if more pungent, adhesive. http://www.herbsociety.org/garlic/g_other.php
Another option is to mould a layer of clay to your scalp and sow it with alfalfa seed, which affords a temporary but colourful (and edible)covering.
I've never understood why people insist on filtering tunes through (real or pasted-on) head hair. Head hair is an insidious web which softens an instrument's attack, subtly flattens its pitch, and—frankly—is simply hideous to we bulbous smooth-heads from that place you call 'the future'.
(Don't get me wrong, however. The future is not a hairless paradise. We need to shave a small patch of wispy, whitish, vestigial hair from the left side of our heads. And beneath our silver spacesuits we're hairy as that sweaty hominid you call Tom Jones.)
ifyou happen to be playing shetland reels on your fiddle when your wig falls off just slip on a viking helmet, you can also give the barman a good headbutt with it if he gives you a bad pint
mmelec it could be the cat he is wearing. Ask dphil, what ever
he is using it does not smell nice but the way he does his morris dancing it never moves. (It could be a well trained cat)
Man goes into a wig shop; I am interested in buying a wig.
Cirtainly sir; we have these in nylon, or these in natural hair.
How moch for the natural hair ones ?
Sixtyfive pounds plus tax.
I wont need the tax, I was going to clag it on.
Traditional Wig Glue?
Traditional Wig Glue?
I find my wig is always falling off when playing a particularly ferocious set of reels at my local session.
Which adhesive do you, the people on this forum use?
I usually use Hair Hat Araldite or, best of all, SyrupStik but is there any other product more traditional and suitable for the Trad Irish whistle player?
By the way (off topic) does anyone else collect potato peelers or hot water bottles (HWB) of the famous like what I does?
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Krick Stahlschwanz
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
If you grow a beard on the bottom of your face it provides a sufficiently large hair:skin ratio that no-one will be bothered if your wig falls off.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Igloo Wig Glue. That's the go; Can't go wrong. Gloogle it.
http://www.askart.com/AskART/assets/member/159/15911/2226_69830_LowerYukonEskimo_thumb.jpg
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Duijera Dubh
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Why would you want to wear a wig, anyway? In the Traditional Music world, baldness is surely an asset. You only have to look at Brendan Begley, Cathal McConnell, Martin Fay, S(k)in(h)ead O'Connor... My musical credentials have increased tenfold since the hair fell off me coconut.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by ragaman
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
But, if you want traditional, flour and water is the way to go. If you don't mind venturing into foreign territory (and why not - half the tunes are foreign anyway), garlic juice is a much stronger, if more pungent, adhesive. http://www.herbsociety.org/garlic/g_other.php
Another option is to mould a layer of clay to your scalp and sow it with alfalfa seed, which affords a temporary but colourful (and edible)covering.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by ragaman
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
"S(k)in(h)ead O'Connor".
Ah geez, classic!
Did you just make that up off the top of your head, or is it an hairloom.
(Sorry.)
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Duijera Dubh
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
I've never used wig glue because I keep flipping mine. Just an uphill battle not worth fighting.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Oldest one in the book, Didge. Oldest one in the book.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by ragaman
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
An oldie but a goodie eh?
They don't have that book here. Can you get it on ebay?
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Duijera Dubh
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6761
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3162
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/173
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Krick Stahlschwanz
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
I'll have what he's having.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Duijera Dubh
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
I never knew Jamie wore a wig, Krick.
Didge - There's nothing you can't get on ebay, not even what Krick's having.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by ragaman
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Jamie tried wearing wigs, but they kept getting ripped off at sessions. Bloody careless fiddlers!
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Duijera Dubh
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Traditionally animal or pearl glue was used, but the only downside is you have to use a hot knife to get it off........
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by banjoburger
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Oh and by the way, I have a beatiful vintage potato peeler pitched in Eb, stamped Pratt Perfected.
Do you have any idea what it may be worth Krick?
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by banjoburger
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
I have a beatified potato peeler actually, so there. What price all this and heaven too.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Duijera Dubh
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
one part spit, three parts porter, some melted rosin. mix thoroughly. apply sparingly.
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by mtodd
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
I've never understood why people insist on filtering tunes through (real or pasted-on) head hair. Head hair is an insidious web which softens an instrument's attack, subtly flattens its pitch, and—frankly—is simply hideous to we bulbous smooth-heads from that place you call 'the future'.
(Don't get me wrong, however. The future is not a hairless paradise. We need to shave a small patch of wispy, whitish, vestigial hair from the left side of our heads. And beneath our silver spacesuits we're hairy as that sweaty hominid you call Tom Jones.)
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
ifyou happen to be playing shetland reels on your fiddle when your wig falls off just slip on a viking helmet, you can also give the barman a good headbutt with it if he gives you a bad pint
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by myparasgon
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
au natural is the best policy, alternitevily theres no shame in a comb over if u have enough of the good stuff!
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by dennis molloy
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
I thought only Scots and the English went bald?
# Posted on September 18th 2008 by Nate Ryan
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
No - There's plenty of baldies in Wales as well.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by ragaman
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Krick, your last name is fantastic.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by reenactor
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Hollywood tape. Double sided, extra strong, sticking capacity. Pamela Anderson swears by it.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by clogstepping
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
I wouldn't want to wear it either, after the cat kittled in it.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by mmelec
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
mmelec it could be the cat he is wearing. Ask dphil, what ever
he is using it does not smell nice but the way he does his morris dancing it never moves. (It could be a well trained cat)
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by celtic strings
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Man goes into a wig shop; I am interested in buying a wig.
Cirtainly sir; we have these in nylon, or these in natural hair.
How moch for the natural hair ones ?
Sixtyfive pounds plus tax.
I wont need the tax, I was going to clag it on.
# Posted on September 19th 2008 by Pete Stephenson
Re: Traditional Wig Glue?
Hey Krick,
Does Larry Adler still converse with you every night from beyond the grave in Klingon?
# Posted on November 11th 2008 by Greenwiggle