Glue for tips and sinew wrap?

[jmar595]

What should I use for these? Epoxy for the tips? What for the sinew wraps? Also, what is good to glue the shelf material on? I don't have much of a shelf though.

[jmar595]

One more question, what is good to seal an osage selfbow?

[Pat B]

I like pine pitch glue for hafting stone and trade points. I use either super glue, Tite Bond III or pine pitch varnish to seal sinew wraps and Tru-Oil to seal most  of my wood bows. Barge(contact) cement or super glue or TBIII for gluing shelf material.   Pat

[jmar595]

Where can you find pine pitch? And what do you use to glue the sinew wraps?

[Pat B]

Pine pitch is what oozes out of pine trees, I put it in a can and heat it up, remove the debris(bark, dirt, etc) and add bees wax and crushed charcoal.  For sinew wraps I chew the sinew threads until they are soft and wrap it where I want it. The saliva and sinew makes its own glue. After it dry I seal it.
   Pat