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Title: Glue for tips and sinew wrap?
Post by: jmar595 on April 07, 2008, 12:33:00 AM
What should I use for these? Epoxy for the tips? What for the sinew wraps? Also, what is good to glue the shelf material on? I don't have much of a shelf though.
Title: Re: Glue for tips and sinew wrap?
Post by: jmar595 on April 07, 2008, 12:48:00 AM
One more question, what is good to seal an osage selfbow?
Title: Re: Glue for tips and sinew wrap?
Post by: Pat B on April 07, 2008, 08:56:00 AM
I like pine pitch glue for hafting stone and trade points. I use either super glue, Tite Bond III or pine pitch varnish to seal sinew wraps and Tru-Oil to seal most  of my wood bows. Barge(contact) cement or super glue or TBIII for gluing shelf material.   Pat
Title: Re: Glue for tips and sinew wrap?
Post by: jmar595 on April 09, 2008, 03:47:00 PM
Where can you find pine pitch? And what do you use to glue the sinew wraps?
Title: Re: Glue for tips and sinew wrap?
Post by: Pat B on April 09, 2008, 04:07:00 PM
Pine pitch is what oozes out of pine trees, I put it in a can and heat it up, remove the debris(bark, dirt, etc) and add bees wax and crushed charcoal.  For sinew wraps I chew the sinew threads until they are soft and wrap it where I want it. The saliva and sinew makes its own glue. After it dry I seal it.
  Pat