does anyone know how much working time you have with this stuff ?
And how does it work with wet skins or oily wet hides?
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I use Gorilla glue on bird wings. What are you planning to use it on? For bird wings you will need to get the inside wet before adding the glue. It doesn't take much! On bird wings it sets up in about 45 minutes. Keep squeezing it until you get the desired thicknes and you had better hope all of your holes are sewn up! That stuff is NO fun to get off feathers.
You can also use Gorilla glue for setting jawsets. It works great! Make sure you ruff up the form and jaw set before adding the glue. You can mist the form with water and that seems to help with adhesion. If you have an open mouth -like on a boar- you can use the glue to place the lip skin. Even with hide pase on the lips, the gorilla glue will stick. Instead of having to pin the inner lips just glue em down and they are stuck! I do not recommend it on anything smaller than a coyote (for open mouth lip adhesion) as you will end up with a mess.
Hope this helps!
How do you get it into the wing after you sew it up?
I was thinking of using it on plastic earliners!
I wire the wings and legs, make a neck for the body and connect it to the body as usual. Before caulking the neck and inserting it into the bird I go ahead and fill the wings. Then I wire the wings to the body and sew the bird up. While I'm sewing I mash on the wings a few times while the glue is rising. I press it in the direction of the body so it bonds to the form. After I have sewn it up I attach my Tony Finazzo bird head and position the bird as desired. The slow setting of the glue allows me some working time and in 45 minutes the wings are completely done and set. If it is a flying mount you should tape the wings as soon as you get that head glued on.
Good luck!
Gorilla glue is great stuff with all kinds of uses in taxidermy. But be aware of it's expanding potential and force. Some time ago when I first started useing this glue I had the misfortune of glueing a wall base (3ft long) to the wall. I had glued some cork board to the base back and then hung it on a wood wall. A few days later when I tried to remove the base I found it solidly glued to the wall. The Gorilla glue expanded out of the seams and formed the tightest bond I'll ever remember. (I know "I used too much"). A full day was wasted separateing the base from the wall. And that is another story.
Thanks I did not Know it expanded . I wiil keep this in mind and try some out on somthing .
really affects the way it works.Almost anything you glue with,you can really reduce the amount of glue you use by pre-moistening a bit.Where moisture absorbs the glue "follows" creating a stronger bond.It does make it expand more though.
You need a little moisture and to allow for some expansion is becuase it's a urethane-based glue. Sort of like the stuff used in expanding foam but, of course, much less expansive. For what it's worth . . .