Which Glue

[commercialbuilder]

I see several pens each week with aluminum and brass inlays and was wondering what type of glue you use to bond it to the blanks.
Thanks

 

[broitblat]

I've used epoxy with (admittedly) mixed results.

-Barry

 

[keithlong]

I used medium Ca with the few that I done and had good results.

 

[RogerH]

+1 on using medium CA. Made my own blanks out of strips aluminum pop cans and black acrylic, and the medium ca worked well, though it took a while to set up.

 

[okiebugg]

Gorilla glue

I use gorilla glue especially when I am doing metal. It will permanently bond almost anything to anything. I've never had it fail.

 

[bensoelberg]

CA for the ones I've done.

 

[JohnU]

Flexible Medium CA . It allows the joint to move without breaking apart.

 

[Alzey]

+1 on using medium CA. Made my own blanks out of strips aluminum pop cans and black acrylic, and the medium ca worked well, though it took a while to set up.

That is why i love this forum, always finding great ideas that don't cost a fortune. I would have never thought of using a soda can for the inlay. :biggrin:Brilliant:biggrin:

 

[hewunch]

But stay away from brad point bits when drilling your blank

 

[AnachitlPut]

+1 on using medium CA. Made my own blanks out of strips aluminum pop cans and black acrylic, and the medium ca worked well, though it took a while to set up.

that gives me an idea to bad i am out of a lathe at the moment.

 

[bitshird]

I'll also use Med.CA on inlay, I also use accelerator sprayed on the metal/plastic/veneer.

 

[IPD_Mr]

Like many others I use CA as that was how I was taught on here. The real problem with CA and metals is that the metal will hear up very fast and the CA will fail at about 165 degrees. So to do this it takes a tone of patience in both turning and drilling. You need to treat it like snakewood, heat is the enemy.

 

[76winger]

But stay away from brad point bits when drilling your blank

That sounds like a good tip, especially since I mostly use Brad points!

 

[commercialbuilder]

Thanks

Thanks for all the great advice, I am definetly goung to try some and see what happens.
Thanks Again
Mike

 

[moke]

I have been segmenting with thick CA and had reasonably good results---I sand the metals in order to rough them and the drill a blank with a standard high speed bit over a half and hour or so in a collet chuck while blowing air in the hole. I have used CA so I can get a reasonable set up time so as to get a seg'ed blank done in a night or so.

The gorilla glue interests me. I have some and use it if I have a blank with a slightly oversize hole, but it seems to have a slower set up time---am I wrong? I do not mean to hijack the thread, but this seems to be on target....

 

[moke]

+1 on using medium CA. Made my own blanks out of strips aluminum pop cans and black acrylic, and the medium ca worked well, though it took a while to set up.

That is why i love this forum, always finding great ideas that don't cost a fortune. I would have never thought of using a soda can for the inlay. :biggrin:Brilliant:biggrin:

Alzey--
There was a thread about a year ago or so about material people use for segs....I tried to find it but could not. I use a lot of different materials....I put in some new mini blinds and used the extras louvers for segs...both the cheap-o thin kind and the thick ones....Of course the wife has no idea of why I did not want any blinds that had any texture to them! I also use the black plastic inserts for three ring binders and of course pick guard.