I have read in a number of books and articles in Taxidermy Today about the use of super glue to attach artificial bird heads to the skins of birds, my question is, does this method hold up over the long term. I do not use artificial heads on the birds that I do, mainly water fowl, but am interested to know whether the glue lets go over time. I have also seen ads in magazines where the lips of mammals are glued to the form and wonder how long it will hold. P.S. I am not posting Christmas day here in Australia, it is 11.30pm Boxing Day, and am having a couple of drinks with my wife, so when you read this it will be Boxing Day morning for you, but better late than never, Merry Christmas to all you Taxi's in USA, and have a profitable New Year.
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Any time I sat down with my ex wife and had a few drinks it became, "Boxing Day". I started gluing bird skins to artificial heads around 1977. Even though I used another type of glue at the time, the birds in several museum exhibits still have the skin in place. I have used CA for years and can't remember an instance where it didn't hold so long as the glued bojects were not greasy.
Surgeons use it for a number of reasons, broken and shattered bones for one example. It holds for at least 35 years, what more can I say?
Once the bird has dried for a week or so.........everything is dried in place anyway. If the glue lets go after ten years it would be hard to tell wouldn't it?
Thanks I will give glue a go.
Make sure your Super Glue is Gel and not the runny one. feathers wick the stuff pretty good.