Tropical Hardwood Glue

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.

Tropical hardwood glue.

Harder woods such as oak teak maple alder apetong araki pau lope osage orange etc may be glued directly with our epoxy adhesives. Ideal for soft and hardwood types and also works well with natural wood composites. An integration of nature and simplicity for an organic yet deliberate space. In addition it will with proper chemical surface preparation glue a wide variety of metals glass rubber or plastic.

Not all species are listed or available. 2 days 20 hours ago tiny chunk of brasiletta heading out to be displayed as piece of art in this clients s living room. They found a product called tropical hardwood glue made by smith and company in richmond ca that they could not break the joint. 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.

That way the solvent has gassed off and the oils have not started to return to the surface. Tropical hardwood epoxy is a highly flexible two component epoxy adhesive which will glue oily hardwoods including teak mahogany apetong araki osage orange and lignum vitae acidic woods such as oak as well as spruce pine fir or any softer wood. They all took turns pounding on it and the joint would not break the ipe actually broke after more than thirty direct hits. Please refer to our pricelist for a more up to date list of what we currently have in stock.

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. New 8 4 purpleheart in the showroom. Water based glue with strong bonding quality. Only use this list as a guide for common botanical names etc.

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. Cured it is completely waterproof and weatherproof. Using tropical hardwood epoxy glue. This is why it is the all wood glue.