help making hide glue

[Roy from Pa]

 

[Buggs]

Thats awesome 

Pat you live farther out of town than me! I would not have done that drive either. I just know in the past I have been miffed by watching expensive materials get sucked up by "filters"  Not that your glue was expensive......
Unless you account for your time.

[Pat B]

Someone else suggested paint filters. If I make another batch I will get them. At least then I'd know it would be uncontaminated. I used an old T shirt from the old rag bag in the utility room. Those rags work for everything else. Why not filtering hide glue.     

[Roy from Pa]

Lmao

[Kirkll]

A sincere question here..... Why are you going to the trouble of making your own hide glue?  I don't get it....

Kirk

[Pat B]

Because I've never made hide(collagen) glue and I thought I'd try. The sinew scraps I used to make this glue is from the moose sinews that Bue sent me. I'm building an ancient Danish bow and using the Norwegian moose sinew to back it and sinew glue from the scraps of that sinew. It just seemed the thing to do. 
I also use hide glue for applying rawhide and snakeskin bow backings.

[Roy from Pa]

Kirk a lot of folks just enjoy doing things the old fashioned way.

[Buemaker]

We hide glue makers are one of the smallest minority groups in the world, the cream of the crop.

[Buggs]

Does the hide/sinew glue smell as foul as hoof glue?
If so then you guy's are definitely one of the smallest minority groups, and must have a recessive anti stink gene to tolerate that stuff

[Roughcountry]

Hide glue has some has some things that others don't.  my favorite is holding a couple sticks while the the glue sets rite were I want them. It sets real fast if you do it right.

[Pat B]

I cooked this batch in our sunroom and didn't notice any offensive smells...and neither did my wife. Now, she is used to smelling me!   
Hide glue has been used in furniture making for a long time and still is.

[Roy from Pa]

I cooked this batch in our sunroom and didn't notice any offensive smells...and neither did my wife. Now, she is used to smelling me!   
Hide glue has been used in furniture making for a long time and still is.

Oh Lord, please give me the strength to keep my mouth shut here:)

[Pat B]

I was baiting you, Roy. 

[Roy from Pa]

I imagined her having sinus problems or walking around with a full face mask/respirator system:)

[Pat B]

She does have sinus problems...thanks goodness.