Tropical Hardwood Glue

Water based glue with strong bonding quality.

Tropical hardwood glue.

This is why it is the all wood glue. Please refer to our pricelist for a more up to date list of what we currently have in stock. 2 days 20 hours ago tiny chunk of brasiletta heading out to be displayed as piece of art in this clients s living room. Oily hardwoods need no special pretreatment and should not be solvent cleaned before gluing.

Using tropical hardwood epoxy glue. Smith s oak teak epoxy glue is the 2004 upgraded version of all wood glue whose technology is based on our tropical hardwood epoxy a product famous for thirty years of gluing any wood known to man or beast. New 8 4 purpleheart in the showroom. In addition it will with proper chemical surface preparation glue a wide variety of metals glass rubber or plastic.

Smith co s tropical hardwood epoxy will glue not only oily hardwoods such as mahogany and teak but oak spruce or any other softer wood. Cured it is completely waterproof and weatherproof. Not all species are listed or available. Ideal for soft and hardwood types and also works well with natural wood composites.

Tropical hardwood epoxy is a highly flexible two component epoxy adhesive which will glue oily hardwoods including teak mahogany apetong araki osage orange and lignum vitae acidic woods such as oak as well as spruce pine fir or any softer wood. Tropical hardwoods have tons of natural oils in them the oldschool trick of cleaning the surface with acetone still works great just be sure to do your gluing within an hour but no less than 30 minutes. Bonds within 30 minutes and cures fully in less than 24 hours. Only use this list as a guide for common botanical names etc.

They found a product called tropical hardwood glue made by smith and company in richmond ca that they could not break the joint. They all took turns pounding on it and the joint would not break the ipe actually broke after more than thirty direct hits. That way the solvent has gassed off and the oils have not started to return to the surface. Harder woods such as oak teak maple alder apetong araki pau lope osage orange etc may be glued directly with our epoxy adhesives.