Tropical Hardwood Glue

Smith co s tropical hardwood epoxy will glue not only oily hardwoods such as mahogany and teak but oak spruce or any other softer wood.

Tropical hardwood glue. Using tropical hardwood epoxy glue. Bonds within 30 minutes and cures fully in less than 24 hours. Not all species are listed or available. Cured it is completely waterproof and weatherproof.

An integration of nature and simplicity for an organic yet deliberate space. Nice widths lengths on this batch. Smith s oak teak epoxy glue is the 2004 upgraded version of all wood glue whose technology is based on our tropical hardwood epoxy a product famous for thirty years of gluing any wood known to man or beast. This is why it is the all wood glue.

For best results any liquid epoxy adhesive should be applied to both surfaces to be glued and allowed to sit long enough for the wood to soak up as much as it wants so that when the pieces are assembled the wood will not absorb the glue that would otherwise. Tropical hardwoods have tons of natural oils in them the oldschool trick of cleaning the surface with acetone still works great just be sure to do your gluing within an hour but no less than 30 minutes. In addition it will with proper chemical surface preparation glue a wide variety of metals glass rubber or plastic. Ideal for soft and hardwood types and also works well with natural wood composites.

They all took turns pounding on it and the joint would not break the ipe actually broke after more than thirty direct hits. They found a product called tropical hardwood glue made by smith and company in richmond ca that they could not break the joint. Oily hardwoods need no special pretreatment and should not be solvent cleaned before gluing. That way the solvent has gassed off and the oils have not started to return to the surface.

Only use this list as a guide for common botanical names etc. Harder woods such as oak teak maple alder apetong araki pau lope osage orange etc may be glued directly with our epoxy adhesives. New 8 4 purpleheart in the showroom. 2 days 20 hours ago tiny chunk of brasiletta heading out to be displayed as piece of art in this clients s living room.