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Cutlers Resin - The Old Term for Pine Pitch Glue

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JackCrafty:
Just thought I'd share this one.  From wikipedia:

Cutler's Resin is a synthetic resin made of pine pitch, beeswax, and sawdust or carnauba wax used for centuries (to today) to attach knife handles. It is used as both an adhesive and for waterproofing. The word cutler means "one who makes knives". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutler's_resin

Here's a web page with lots of links:

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=23929

mullet:
Wow, that's interesting.

JackCrafty:
Eddie, it would have saved us all a lot of trouble if we knew about this stuff sooner.  From now on, I'm just going to tell the newbies to look up "cutlers resin" when they ask me about pitch glue.

 ::)

Pat B:
Thanks Patrick. Cool info. Maybe we should add "pitch glue" to wikipedia.  ;D

JackCrafty:
Go for it Pat!

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