Cement/glue

[Boothill Bob]

Howdy pards..
What cement/glue do you use? for now I´m using contact glue on a tube, its a bad choise
Thinking of bue Tanners Bond Craftsman Contact Cement from Tandy, is that a good cement??
//BhB

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

        Tanners Bond Craftsman Contact Cement is what I use Bob, and like it, Barge is good too, but we can't get it in qt. cans here in California, just small tubes.


               tEN wOLVES 

[Boothill Bob]

Ok TW, then I´ll bye it. Must be alot easyer to apply glue with a brush insted of from a tube..

[Kid Terico]

I use Barge and contact cement in the GEL  form and not the liquid. Nicer to work with. KT

[TN Mongo]

My local Tandy guy told me that Barge makes most of the contact cement that Tandy sells.  The quart size Tandy contact cement I am currently using says made by Barge right on the can.

A few months ago one of the top guys (it may have been Chuck Burrows) was talking about good results using Dap brand contact cement from Lowes or Home Deopt.

[rickk]

Barge

[East_TN_Patriot]

I use regular old contact cement from Lowes.  The fellow at my local Tandy Leather said that there is basically zero difference between their brand and the regular stuff at the home improvement store (except for price).

[rickk]

If you want to test a contact cement, glue two pieces of scrap leather together with it (flesh side to flesh side). Leave some of each exposed so you can pull on the individual pieces.  Put a weight on them and leave them overnight.

The next day, rip them apart.

I know with Barge cement, you will be pulling bits leather off of one or the other piece. The glue holds better than the leather does.

I have not had the same luck with other contact cements.

[GunClick Rick]

Does it works as good as when you glue leather to a different surface say bone or pvc? I am thinking about making a hard container from pvc for my native flute and glue the leather around the tube.. I worry everytime i take it to the mountains,so i want to protect it better,good flutes are not cheap..

[rickk]

I have never tried Barge on PVC or bone. I have never tried to glue bone to anything, and PVC only to PVC.  PVC is a tough critter to glue to.

Sounds like some experimenting is in order.