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Title: Favorite Glue for Bow Tips
Post by: Ray Borbon on May 12, 2009, 01:03:00 AM

What is glue you would recommend using for gluing on tips where the bow strings go?

Title: Re: Favorite Glue for Bow Tips
Post by: Kevin Breaux on May 12, 2009, 07:16:00 PM

I have a disclaimer

Smooth-on for glass bows
Urac for all wood / bamboo bows

             Kevin

Title: Re: Favorite Glue for Bow Tips
Post by: Ray Borbon on May 12, 2009, 11:40:00 PM

Well I went with Urac 185. It worked suprisingly well as far as I can tell. I was gluing ipe tips onto bamboo. I am not sure how that glue would work on phenolic or horn overlays.

In the past I have used Kwik-It with an accelerator which was quite good for horn overlays and also for phenolic.

Still learning but it's interesting to get a vote.