Re: Titebond Liquid Hide Glue Result
Originally Posted by
Walt
Thanks all for the comments on this. I re-glued the board with Titebond Original. I also left the locating pins in place this time; mostly because I didn't want to remove frets, but partly because I hoped it might mitigate creeping issues. I also used more clamping pressure than last time in case that was an issue.
We'll see how it holds up in the Louisiana swamps.
It's still odd to me that my bottle doesn't have an expiration date. Has anyone else bought a bottle recently? Does it have a date? Maybe some unscrupulous seller scrubbed the date off an expired bottle.
About the date of the glue. I have a small brown plastic squeeze bottle that I bought from Cliff's Hardware on High Street in Columbus, OH -- no date on the bottle but I would have bought it in the spring of 1973. I used it to glue some oak chairs and table that we bought at an antique shop. They were still glued tight when we gave the table and chairs to the Vietnam Veterans thrift shop in about 2010. What is more if you put a small bead of this glue on a piece of wax paper and leave it for a day or so in the winter it will form an brown crystalline ball that shatters like glass if you strike it with a hammer. I still use that glue from time to time but on things like mandolins. Just saying.
Last edited by Bernie Daniel; Aug-24-2017 at 7:51pm.
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