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glue recipes???
tattoo dave:
Anybody have a recipe for fish glue? Or hide glue? Will be starting a horn bow, sinew backed pretty soon and I was wondering which would be better. And how does commercial, Titebond hide glue compare? So a recipe once in The magazine for hide glue using doggie rawhide treats, how would that work out, and I forgot what all was involved. Anybody know? Thanks!!
Tattoo Dave
shikari:
Use the leftover scraps of sinew from shredding sinew for the backing,it is excellent as well as yellow croaker airbladders,there are more than a few methods out there on different forums,I have also used commercially bought dry hide glue with great sucess.
BowEd:
I've made hide glue on the wood stove slowly stewing down bits and pieces of an entire rawhide of an antelope.Don't know how strong of glue it made but it sure dries very hard.I've used canvas sizing glue on bow backs[rabbit hide] which worked good but knox gelitin boughten at a grocery store cheap is supposed to be some of the very best according to Tim Baker.
GaryR:
tattoo dave, I'm replying to this because I was looking for the same how-to. From what I'm seeing, boil water, toss in cut pieces of rawhide, then simmer till its gelitan like. Lay that out to dry then break off pieces as needed. If you find a more accurate recipe as in amount of water to rawhide, please let me know.
Thanx,
Gary
Bevan R.:
I would like to know how people mix the Knox gelatin to make glue.
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