Adhesive Products - Furniture Repairs & Restorations

For thousands of years, animal glue was the most common of all adhesive products used as woodworking adhesives for woodworks and carpentry works.

Today, using animal glue as adhesives has transgressed from more than just woodworking adhesives to being used primarily for speciality applications, furniture repairs, and antique furniture restorations.

Because most animal glues are soluble in water, they can be used for joints which may need to be separated for repairs, thereby making joints easily reversible and repairable.

Adhesive products such as animal glue, allows joints to separate easily with the application of heat and steam. So because of the ability of this adhesive to stick to itself, a repairer can apply new glue to the joint and reclamp it.  PVA glues do not have this property once they've cured.

Artists, who use glass as a medium of work, find that hide glass adhesive products qualities and abilities to bond with glass as a great advantage.

Animal Glue Adhesive Products Used For Woodworking, Repairs & Restorations

Hide adhesives: functions like a clamp of sorts. As the adhesive begins to gel it pulls the joints together as it hardens.

Cow bone woodworking adhesives come in pearl forms.

Cow hides animal glue products comes finished as grains and cubes.

Rabbit skin comes produced as a powder(coarse), or in small grains.

Pigs skin finished adhesive products comes in plate like formations.

Sturgeon fish bladder adhesives and glues comes in form of plates

Fish skin a thick liquid form of animal glue adhesive

Hoof glue is a very popular adhesive product used today for woodworks, furniture restorations, and especially for cabinetry construction.

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For furniture repairs and restorations, the advantage of breaking up a joint without getting splinters or removing some precious wood material along with the break, has made the art of furniture restoration very attractive.

With regular polyurethane adhesive products, trying to break off, or separate joints made many years before creates an irregular and difficult to repair break, and may destroy an otherwise valuable piece or an heirloom.

For example, instruments in the violin family require periodic dissembling and re-assembling for its repairs and maintenance. The use of animal glue as an adhesive allows the top of a violin to be easily removed by prying a palette knife between the top and the ribs, running it all around the joint, thereby enabling easy dissembling.

The brittleness afforded by the use of animal adhesive products allows the top to be removed, often without significant damage to the wood. To re-glue, just apply new hot hide adhesive glue to the joint. There will be absolutely no damage to the varnish, nor will there be any removal of some wood material or splinters. This ensures perfect re-assembly.

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If you have a passion for preserving family heirlooms, restoring or repairing your personal collection, or you wish to start a business for the repair and restoration of antique wood furniture, then it's better you use the appropriate adhesive products to get the job well done.

Using animal glue products is the best option because antiques need proper care and their repairs can be a painstaking task if you make the mistake of using chemical based glues, such as PVA or silicone adhesives.

If you decide to pass on your antique furniture to your children - they may become careless in handling and using them, not protecting them from everyday hazards that may occur in their own home - there may come a point in time when they will need to do minor (or major ) repairs on them. And if the wrong adhesive products had been used, result? the antique furniture piece may be destroyed and become worthless.

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