Stephen Birkett wrote: <<Hide glue cures to a crystalline substance which is complectly inflexible. Cured hide glue can only shatter in a joint. It cannot move or bend. >> Well, I learn something new every day! I know that you must do an awful lot of gluing in your restorations, and would personally like your opinon of hide glue versus aliphatic resin glues to attach a bridge. From your previous posts I would guess that you exactly reproduce in your restorations that which was once done, so you constrain yourself to original materials. Do you think that modern wood glues were developed to specifically get away from "completely inflexible" dried hide glue? If I wanted to make a wood book case, which would make a "better-stronger" bookcase, hide or yellow glue? Thanks for your response. Bill Simon Phoenix
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