What is the best wood glue?
Question:I have wooden Chairs the need to be glued back together.
Answers:
For this project, good old yellow carpenter's glue is your best bet. The best carpenter's glue is Titebond II made by Franklin. It is considerably thicker than Elmer's and others, fills gaps better.
Before this goes too long, someone will mention Gorilla Glue. Gorilla Glue is a polyurethane glue, and is indeed wonderful for gluing wood together. The downside is it is really messy and difficult to keep off of places you don't want it. Even if you wipe off the excess, you will likely miss some bits and have a mess. It foams, so even the tiniest bit can cause a spot on your chairs. For something that you will be painting after the fact, you can't beat it. In this case, I would assume you do not want to redo the finish on your chairs after you glue them back together, so stick with the yellow glue. It will hold great if you follow directions.
Elmers Yellow Wood Glue.
Gorilla glue. It's slow drying so you have plenty of time to properly clamp the chairs and wipe off the excess.
I agree with the above guys, just plain wood glue is fine. You need to remember that the glue itself doesn't really bond, it's your joint + glue that does the trick. Make sure the joint is clean and clamped tightly so wood is contacting wood evenly and firmly. You should clamp the joint so that you have some glue squeezing out but don't tighten too much either. The glue bonds between the open cells in the wood and that's gonna give you the best bond.
titebond, it works really well
No matter what glue you decide to use, it WILL come loose eventually. Chairs are subjected to racking forces that will destroy the glue bond over time, it doesn't matter if you use PVA (yellow glue), Polyurethane (Gorilla Glue), Epoxy, White Glue or Hide Glue. Eventually, you will need to pull that joint apart again and re-glue it. The glue joint will only be strong if you remove all the glue residue. The easiest glue to remove when you have to re-glue the chair the next time will be the hide glue, the traditional glue for chair joints. If you have a properly fitting joint you will not receive many more years of service from that joint if you go with PVA over Hide, the trade-off that you will have to make though will be extra time prepping the joint for the next round of repairs. I read an article in one of the woodworking mags about chair repair and the author said that he only uses Hide glue to make repairs to chair joints, because his least favorite task in repairing the chairs is scraping off any other kind of glue. I have not worked with hide glue, but the fact that you can soften it with a hot, wet rag so that it comes off without damaging the wood seems to be a real bonus.
Gorilla Glue---you can get it at Home Depot, Walmart
I used it recently to fix dining wooden chairs...It Worked Great---better than the regular wood glues.
Good luck
I have a large wood-working shop in my basement, I use "Titebond II" for everyhting, it's water and weather proof. first clean the area, they apply the glue, it will get tacky in a few moments and then leave it overnight, I do. Get it at Ace Hardware.
Titebond II is a great all-around wood glue. I only use Gorilla glue for outside projects.
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