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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: soy on July 13, 2012, 06:11:45 pm

Title: hide glue?
Post by: soy on July 13, 2012, 06:11:45 pm

I have a deer hide in the frezer that i was gonna tan but i thought about hide glue ...do i need to remove tje fat and hair or could i just cut and cook tjan strain ...or shuld i leve it and go buy knox??got some sinewing to do on 2 bows
thanks for any suggestions  ;)

Title: Re: hide glue?
Post by: Pat B on July 13, 2012, 08:06:51 pm

I wouldn't waste a good deer hide to make glue. Make rawhide from it. Use knox or get some "real" hide glue.
 

Title: Re: hide glue?
Post by: seabass on July 14, 2012, 12:29:56 am

save the deer hide like Pat said.you can buy hide glue in granulated form from wood working stores.you can also get it from three rivers archery.i wouldn't waste the deer hide on glue.i have a wood working store close by that has a big can of granules for 13 bucks.that can would do alot of projects.

Title: Re: hide glue?
Post by: M-P on July 14, 2012, 12:36:11 am

Making hide glue is easy, once you have clean degreased rawhide.   But if you've gone that far, there are better things to do with  the rawhide.   Save the scraps though, for a batch of glue later.    Ron

Title: Re: hide glue?
Post by: bubby on July 14, 2012, 06:42:49 am

someone did a how to in bows for making hide glue, try a search, Bub