Herbert, have a look at DvE's website www.vanedwards.co.uk/glue.htm This answers most of your questions.
Hide glue is a solution of collagen in water, so to say. You apply it with a brush to the parts to be glued together and press both parts for a certain amount of time, say 15 mins. The glue gells while cooling, the minimal amount of water in the joints is absorbed by the wood. Very simple and elegant. The excess glue is just washed away with warm water. No comparison to the mess created by PVA glue. Your fingers will be sticky but again, hot water does the trick. Your method can be used for veneering. You would apply a generous amount of glue , let it gell and reheat it with an ordinary household iron. best wishes g Zitat von Herbert Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think lutes are assembled mainly with hide glue? And it does not dry, > but rather you have to heat it? > > So, my question is, this seems impractical. If you spread the hot glue in > a 0.5-1.0 mm layer, it would cool before you could get the second piece of > wood positioned. Indeed, I suspect just spreading it evenly would be > difficult. > > If the second piece were thin like a soundboard, you could "iron" it on, > but this wouldn't work for gluing braces or necks. I guess you could do > braces with a heat gun, but the Renaissance lute builders did not have > them. > > >
