Rawhide chew toys for dogs....Dude you are amazing. Fine Art Oil Painter here, and boy do I need a steady supply of DIY hide glue. Organic glue is best for Archival conservation, and I am not keen on paying through my nose for Rabbit Skin Glue to make my Gesso, panel sizing and Bole. Thank you a bunch.
Do youbmake any of your own paints? Would love to see some tutorials on how you make your gesso, and how you make and use this. If you decide to make a video, let me know. Nevertheless, any advice on how to make my own paints?
@@rmt3589 Probably gonna start a channel real soon. Bought all the camera equipment and learning video editing as I speak. It will be a trip. Will let you know when it's up my friend. And yes, I make my own paints, panels, gesso, and painting frames in the baroque style. Been painting for 25+ years. I can copy Rembrandt at this point.
When at college our lecturer did a demonstration on different types of glues used in carpentry. By far animal glue was the most insanely strong. Most brand "super glues" were laughably flimsy compared to animal glue, that shit was miraculously strong. Stunk like death though, definitely the biggest downside.
Thats how body works! After any surgery all cut tissues can be glued together in few weeks . Just puting the edges together and waiting is enough! Awesome creation!
Deer thinking at 04:30, the last time you mentioned a pot of glue my brother vanished, you said he went to live on a farm miles away, really, you seem to have plenty of glue and i am lonely.
Dude !?!?! You have pet deer’s !! 😁 That’s too friggin cool!,I thought the glue was cool until a real life actual deer just came up like: “What’s up bro?” That’s awesome sauce!, congratulations!
wonderful video, especially liked your friend that was wondering about the video. Must be cool to have deer comfortable enough to hang with you like that.
Very nice! Can u overkook the hide? Would it make sense, as can be ssen in some videos, to put the hide strips into a blender to cut the pieces further down? And I like your dog, very cute! :)
Does hide glue tend to soften if it's in strong sunlight and heat and/or if it's really damp? Also I've heard it's not the best to use on, say, wood joints that will be under tension like to join an instrument neck to the body? What's your observations on that? Thanks for the vid, if I still lived in a nature area with lots of animals around I'd love to try making my own glue like this! :)
A good video that brought up childhood memories. In response to this question and the 8th comment to the previous question. Years ago i studied stringed instrument repair and building. I seem to remember some of the more traditional as well as more contemporary texts giving directions for using heat and a thin metal blade or wedge to remove the neck from the body of guitars, violins and mandolins. Hide glue is still sold and used in fine woodworking as well as being used in traditional bow and arrow construction. So, I think it will do fine in a well designed and constructed wood joint under stress. If you need a more definitive answer, i might suggest contacting Elderly Instruments in Lansing, MI. Talk to their techs in the repair dept. Or find a local bow maker. Or see sources below. Ill give Elderly a plug as Ive done business with them for years. In addition to doing excellent repair and setup of instruments for both us common folk and world famous musicians, they sell and stock a wide variety of quality new and used stringed and other instruments and do business worldwide. All from a multi story old corner building by the river in northern Lansing's historic Old Town. Its an area with many galleries and events relating to the arts. The store and area are both worth a visit online or in person. If looking for general sources of hide glue, you'll want brushes and a heating pot. The glue is sensitive to being heated too high so you need a thermostatically controlled electric pot to heat the chips to the proper temperature. As I remember, it was 155 to 165 degrees F. Too cold and it wont get a good intimate contact with the wood surface. If you heat it too hot, you'll ruin it. Id verify that temp to be sure as its been decades. Ive done it years ago on a stove with a double boiler pan and a thermometer. Once used for hide glue, I'd plan on only using them for that purpose in the future. The heating pot I have plugs into 110v wall plug and has temperature setting marked. If doing much of this work, the pot is worth the cost and more compact and saves pans and kitchen stove. Sources if you don't want to make it; Check the ads in Fine Woodworking and other woodworking magazines. Also, www.stewmac.com is an online source of luthier supplies and tools and has the glue and pots. A source of woodworker supplies including hide glue, tools and wood is Johnson's Workbench in Charlotte,MI. I hope this helps. Ill also add that Ive seen it made as in this video 60+ years ago but, I'm pretty sure attention was made to keeping it at a low simmer and not boiling it. Perhaps it was after the glue liquor was skimmed off and filtered. Ive seen it made with and without a thermometer. Perhaps they had another means to monitor the temp. And the quality can vary batch to batch with homemade methods. In survival or primitive skills this may work fine. But, because of this variation, Ive purchased the glue from retail sources when I used it for woodworking projects. And in those times, a thin coating on a well fitted joint is far better than slopping it on all over. Humbly Dale
@@djstadel Hi Dale, thank you for your detailed response, I appreciate the information. I haven't lived in the US for 10 years now but I'll check out their website!
My father used to use this for marquetry. It was very stinky. He would work on it outside rather than in the shop. A lot of antique furniture was assembled with animal glue. Sometimes microbes would eat all the glue and leave the joint dry.
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How long is the process from hide to glue? I wonder which would be easier to preserve, hide or glue. Could you just use as much hide you need for the glue and preserve the rest or would it be better to make as much glue as you can and preserve that?
If you can reconstitute it with water, it's not waterproof, which answers my first question. Is there any adhesive I could make from natural sources that is waterproof? I'm thinking about laminating wood for now making.
I would like to encourage you to use natural sinew and not that strange fake imitation stuff that’s just string with some wax on it. You’re already going through the process of making natural glue, I would suggest trying to get some natural sinew 😊 thanks for the video!
Can I make glue from my own skin? I don't like to wear shoes and the skin on my feet gets hard so I cut it off in chunks with a switchblade while I'm just sitting around. I started saving it one day and now I got a bunch.
Great video! I have heard a lot about hide glue. I tan my own hides and make my own sinew and would like to try this. Once it’s boiled into a “glue” form, how do I store it so that it doesn’t harden? If it is stored and hardened how do I turn it back to glue?
