Re: Hide glue question
Originally Posted by
Jeff Mando
The old guy who taught me had a glue pot cooking on the counter, which customers could see when they walked it. I asked, "so you use hot hide glue for all repairs, huh?" He said, naw, you use Titebond (original) for everything -- it works better and is easier to use -- the glue pot is what customers expect to see in a repair shop, along with clamps hanging on the wall, etc., just as jeweler's have their loupes and car mechanic's have their jacks....call it ambience or intrigue or whatever......
I have never appreciated how Hide Glue acolytes (often) make false statements about AR glue being “non-reversable” and thus a sin. Earlier in this very thread such a statement was made. I have a number of interests, art restoration being one, and if that statement was indeed true, I would be the first to agree with it.
One of the posters on this thread declares HHG as “vastly superior” on his site.
HHG is no more “vastly superior” to AR glue than an ox cart is vastly superior to a Toyota Rav4. They both do a job, and if you like one better than the other, then no-one has the right to say you are mistaken, but let’s keep our feet on the ground about our preferences.
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
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