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Originally Posted by steveyam
I'm referring to the 'ready mixed' Titebond in a brown plastic squeezy bottle. Has any one used it to hold a bridge in place? I'm not looking for guesses (I can guess and gamble myself  ), just real life experience on this issue please. Thanks. |
I have used it for a variety of musical instrument glue joints, but not for gluing a guitar bridge. My experience, and others have had similar experience, while others have not, is that 100% of what I glued with it came apart with normal seasonal high humidity. A letter to the editor once appeared in Fine Woodworking magazine from a reader who had built an entire guitar using Titebond's ready-mix liquid hide glue. It was summer in New York City and the humidity was high. His guitar was coming apart at every glue seam. The response from Grit Laskin was, paraphrasing, "You're screwed - don't use it next time."
One of the catastrophic failures was the top on a lute I made coming unglued. Pretty serious damage resulted.
I'd never use it on anything other than arts and crafts projects. If you are looking to avoid the issues with hot hide glue, I do recommend Old Brown Glue, a pre-mixed liquid hide glue. You can buy it direct, or Lee Valley now sells it. It has a one year shelf life.