Starbond Adhesives
A simple product with dozens of uses around the shop
CA Glues have been around forever. What sets starbond apart is it is a two-part system with multiple colors and thicknesses of glue for all types of applications.
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Filling Knots and Cracks
Knots, cracks, and other small defects happen in wood. You can put epoxy in that will take hours to dry, You can use wood filler that may match or may stand out like a sore thumb. Or you can use Stabond to quickly fill the defect and get on with the project.
This is the primary way I use Starbond. Quick repairs to small defects in my wood furniture. I find myself using the Brown Medium-Thick the most as it blends to near-invisible with most wood stains.
Attaching Templates
This is the coolest trick I ever learned. I did not invent it, but boy do I use it!
You need to route a complex shape into your workpiece, so you make a template. Now you need to attach the template to your workpiece and get it off without damaging either.
Painters Tape + Starbond
Cover a section of both the template and the workpiece in painter’s tape. Put Starbond on the painter’s tape. Stick the two pieces together… Boom..Rock-solid.
When it’s time to pull them apart. Pull them apart. The tape will let go leaving you an undamaged workpiece
As a Clamp
So you need to get a piece in an impossible to clamp area. CA glue is great but it’s not wood glue. You can do wood glue on most of the piece with a few sections of Starbond. The Starbond will set up in 30seconds acting as a clamp for the wood glue. The speed of Starbond and the strength of wood glue at the same time
