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Offline tallpine

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Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« on: March 27, 2014, 05:04:41 pm »
I have an Osage recurve in the works that I am going to sinew. I spent the last few days searching old posts and there seems to be a lot of different opinions on using Tite-bond and sinew. I would like to get some fresh input before I decide which way to go.  Any and all help appreciated.

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2014, 05:14:09 pm »
I only use hide glue for sinew backing. 
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2014, 05:51:25 pm »
Most and I have use hide and if you do use hide glue, make sure you degrease the osage really well.
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Offline BOWMAN53

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2014, 06:03:07 pm »
knox knox knox

Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2014, 06:06:59 pm »
Nothing fresh my friend, same battle wages. They both work, but one is better than the other.
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Offline BOWMAN53

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2014, 06:09:26 pm »
this topic comes up atlease once a month lol maybe we should just sticky it to the top lol

Offline 4dog

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2014, 06:16:44 pm »
sticky it as in...with hide glue.... hee hee! see what i did there.   >:D
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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2014, 06:18:40 pm »
corny man corny lol

Offline Pat B

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2014, 06:30:45 pm »
I prefer to use hide glue for sinew backings.
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Offline mwosborn

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2014, 06:35:29 pm »
I have seen this one get nasty!  >:D  I prefer hide glue.
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Offline kleinpm

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2014, 10:18:15 pm »
I use super glue.   :)

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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2014, 10:40:26 pm »
I don't know a lot about it, but I used tb2 on my first sinew job that I done just 2 week's ago. I personally was pleased with the results after the glue all dried. But it was difficult in my opinion to apply because the glue was thick and hard to tell where you are at during the application. That being said I would have loved to use hide glue, I have never had any experience with hide glue. So I was pretty hesitant to mix up some Knox hide glue, and just start the application. Since then I have made 4 batches of it and finally figured it out and will be using it on my next sinew job.

If you want some recent info there was a pretty good conversation on my thread when I applied sinew with tb2. Its only just under 2 week's old. Here is the link.
 http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,45674.0.html
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2014, 10:54:40 pm »
Yeah, it is harder with tb as it's thick and sticky. Maybe if you watered it down it would help? I tried sinewing with tb3 once, and will never try again. It dried on the outside but the sinew never dried on the inside. It was still squishy after a month. I will never do that again. It was not near as snappy as a sinew bow normally is, and took a lot of set. I just sinewed a bow a couple days ago with some hide glue I got from woodcraft. So far I am very pleased, looks and smells like the hide glue I used to make from sinew scraps. I almost got some that was labeled "industrial hide glue", but than I read all the warnings about ventilation and how not to come into contact with skin, etc. I found some other stuff though that was more expensive, but seemed to be just good old hide glue. It was much easier to make then cooking your own too, took an hour or so and it was ready to go.
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2014, 11:16:51 pm »
Yeah the Knox gelatin glue don't take too long. It takes longer to get the water temp right than anything. I glued two pieces of Osage together that was about 6in long and after it set up over night I couldn't break them apart. Even beating them on the work bench. I did finally break them with a hammer while it was propped up on two boards. The glue held and I actually ripped the wood.
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Offline tallpine

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Re: Tite-bond or Hide glue?
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2014, 11:40:15 pm »
Thanks for the link lebhuntfish, don't know how I missed that thread. I'm going with the tried and true hide glue, I've used it before, just always looking to try something new. Thanks for all the replies guys