You can buy ready to use hide glue which requires no expertise to use. Titebond make a liquid hide wood glue. It is quite suitable for small jobs such as gluing body frets (obviously professional lute makers prefer to use there own concoctions for jobs such as barring and assembling tops). Hide glue is very strong (particularly fish glue) but makes disassembling much easier and less destructive than modern glues. Best Matthew
> On Jun 8, 2016, at 10:30, Ed Durbrow <edurb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Everett, Sterling, Dan and Martin for the guidance. I don’t have > any hide glue. That is kind of a speciality item for luthiers, isn’t it? I > read here that there is a learning curve: > http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/Data/Materials/hideglue.html. I have > some no-brand white glue, but is Titebond not considered a white glue? I know > it is more yellow, but what do you think? I can try the no-brand white glue > and see if it is successful. What is the downside of Titebond? > Thank you. > > > Ed Durbrow > Check out my music video “Trumped” at: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLe6TWO16A&ab_channel=EdDurbrow > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
