Titebond Liquid Hide Glue Vs Old Brown Glue

However i did enjoy chatting with the helpful lady who sells the old brown glue much more than the useless farts who barely know what glue is at the hardware store much less understand that some glues have a shelf.

Titebond liquid hide glue vs old brown glue. The most important comparisons smell color transparency and initial tack are notable characteristics of these two liquid hide glues but the important features are how the glue joint holds up and what it takes to reverse glued up joints. And hes created. I would use regular titebond wood glue however. If you glue two smoothly prepared tightly fitting pieces of maple a dense hard relatively non porous wood back to back together us.

If youre going to use liquid hide glue use old brown. Thats not great for the glue but its functional. Hot hide glue is superior but its a bit more fiddly in terms of mixing it having the glue pot working time etc. However titebond liquid hide glue which in the bottle is liquid at room temperature is not as good as proper pearl hide glue or the animal glue granuals it is weaker than both of these and i suspect has a lower melting point.

He explains why one glue cant cover all the bases. Titebond genuine hide glue is the first hide glue to be offered in a liquid ready to use form. The answer depends on what you mean by strong also note that hot hide glue is superior to bottled hide glue. I also add a couple of drops of pure cedar wood oil that acts as a biocide and helps keep fungus at bay.

By adding more urea the glue stays open longer and vice versa. Titebond lhg is a different animal than the old brown glue. Titebond or hide glue. Dan erlewine uses three glues for this repair and each has different properties.

Patrick edwards explains his liquid hide glue old brown glue. Liquid hide glue however is considered to be inferior to traditional hot hide glue in strenght but is a lot easier to use with its long working time. I make my own version of old brown glue by adding some urea to the hot glue mix. It requires no mixing heating or stirring.

The titebond glue exhibited less tack than was found with the old brown glue. Hot glue or bottled. Professional woodworkers use titebond genuine hide glue for its long assembly time exceptional strength and unique crackling effect on wood. Where i want to make sure a joint is particularly strong i would use one of the traditional glues and i would also only use the traditional glues on instruments.

For me the titebond liquid hide glue offers all the convenience of pva with the all the benefits of hide glue over pva.