gorilla glue

[penrosefred]

Does anyone use gorilla glue building their  bows, if so where and if not why not.

[Pat B]

I have never used Gorilla glue for anythiung but I have heard it is OK for overlays but not for bow(wood) assemble. It has a foaming action that produces voids in the glue-up.

[Broke another one]

I would not recommend using gorilla glue, from my understanding it was not meant to be used in wood that will be under high # bends.

[David Holt]

There is a guy on you tube that uses gorilla glue on all his bows.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHhGjRdE9Zc&feature=PlayList&p=4E2F60BC970A374D&index=0

[Tom Leemans]

bad idea.

[Loren Holland]

Gorilla glue left me bleeding in the driveway, holding two halves of newly formed kindling...its foaming action does not take the stress that TB3 will.  Caution there is a new TBIII offshoot out, that i saw at woodcrafters the other day. even the woodcrafters guys said stay away from it, the TBIII poly, is almost identical to gorilla.  its great for filling a gap, but not to hold a load.

[Ricker]

The gorilla glue is a poly type glue, and like has been said here, it foams.  I did a few test pieces quite a while ago and threw away the bottle as I was so dissatisfied with the stuff.
May be that others have had good experiences with it, but personally, I won't even glue a handle overlay on with it let alone something as important as a tip overlay.
Hopefully, by a few folks throwing in their experiences here you can decide what you wanna do....

[4runr]

I go along with the NAY sayers!

[penrosefred]

That is all I need to know,Thanks

[mikieg]

i have used on my four legged arrow foots. works real well and holds up to moisture good. but i am not so sure i would expect it to hold a lam stack together.

[Russell S.]

I use gorilla for quite a few things, it is verry good for gap filling and sealing and will bond to more substances then TBIII,  (IE metal and some plasitcs/rubbers)  i however would not use it for any aplication that requires bending. it is very brittle once dry and foams..  its very good glue so long as you use it for its intended applications.  I aways have Gorrlia, TBIII, putty epoxy, 5 min epoxy, 3M Weatherstrip adhesive, contact cement and smooth on on hand.  everyone is the best glue for something.

[Roy Steele]

You can get gorilla super glue.It dosn't foam up.Thinking of finishing a selfbow with it.I've used plain super glue.

[Russell S.]

gorilla superglue is a different monster.  its just another CA not a polyurethane glue, i would think it would be just as appropriate as any other CA i do not know how thick it is.

[Loren Holland]

Russell is absolutely right, the gorilla super glue is not the same thing as regular Gorilla glue, that i mentioned a bad experiance with above.  i will say that i have used the gorilla CA for tip overlays, and it works well. i first bought it because of the advertised rubberized additive that supposedly allows for more impact absortion...sounded good...either way it has held tips on several bows