Every few days I prepare a new batch of hide glue. Granules of dry glue swell up as they soak up water overnight. The glue is ready for heating the following morning. I use distilled water when using hide glue to avoid minerals that can discolor the wood.
The jar sits in water heated to 140°F inside the small crock-pot. My current glue pot is a small, inexpensive crock-pot that keeps the water at just the right temperature.
Where did I hide that hide glue?
Steve Szilagyi: I think Dr. Young can tell you where you put it!
What’s in the jar? Halavah?
You are a better man than I, Doug Berch. I just buy the ready to use stuff.
I am gonna have to google Halavah…unless you care to enlighten me here!
Gary Sager: I’m not a better man, just an old-fashioned kind of guy!
A different take on ‘the bunny died’, Doug.
Unless we take it to mean that as a result of the hide glue, Doug’s shop is pregnant with promise.