Glue for your wood core

[madclimber03]

I'm getting ready to glue my wood together so that i can profile it. I was wondering what kind of glue everyone is using. I'm thinking of a wood glue but i'm not sure because i have heard that epoxy is good to. Any suggestions on type of glue and any certain brands of glue would help a lot! Thanks

[krp8128]

Guerrilla Glue.

[teleman36]

titebond yellow wood glue. no problems on many ash cores.

[kirol]

Guerrilla Glue.

Wont it expand?

[endre]

is guerilla glue a polyurethane glue?

[krp8128]

Yes, Guerrilla glue is a polyurethane glue. And it does expand, which is one reason why I like it. As long as your wood is firmly clamped, the expanding glue is forced into the wood fibers.

[MartinJern]

I dont think its that important what kind of glue is used for laminating a core. In the end its the comosites that holds it together. Unless u want to prebend the core, then the glue needs to be water resistant.

I'd go for the normal white woodglue, polyurethan is quite expensive...

[mark]

I'm with Martin on this one. Building my first now I used polyurethane and am now thinking it wasn't worth the cost and effort.

Any type of wood glue should be stronger than the cross grain strength of the wood it's holding together and if the core gets wet long enough to cause problems with non-waterproof/resistant glue, I'd be willing to bet you'd have issues with the wood going soft anyway.

The one thing I'm still wondering about is flexibility; Is poly glue more flexible than a more traditional wood glue and does it matter? If it does, I'll most likely start looking at something like a 3M marine adhesive.

[Greg]

I use Titebond for all of my wood working projects, including ski building. I have used Titebond 2 and Titebond 1, and didn't really notice any difference. However, they say that Titebond 2 holds better if it gets moist, which means that it should work well for skis, if your sealing isn't that great. But, on the other hand, Titebond 2 is more expensive than Titebond 1. There is also Titebond 3, for extreme water resistance, but I think that is more applicable to the boating world.

[Baumnog]

Be it excessive but the guys at my Rockler store say that Titebond 3 is the strongest. They say it has been tested to be the strongest wood glue around.

[MartinJern]

but do u really need the worlds strongest glue?
if u glue two pieces of wood toghether with normal woodglue and break it, the break wont be in the joint its the wood that cracks. (if u press it tight together, the thinner the joint is the stronger it gets)

[Buuk]

Titebond III Ultimate wood glue works fine for me
http://www.titebond.com/WNTitebondIIITB.asp