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  1. 24th August 2006, 10:40 AM #1
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    I've picked up hundreds of metres of 3mm cedar strip rejects (most of them look fine to me) from a blind manufacturer and am doing some gentle curved laminations (600mm radius) with pva, I'd rather do this than muck around with urea formaldeydes. I'm having trouble getting a proper bond, I can literally pull the laminations apart afterwards. The glues not old, the strips are clean...any advice would be appreciated.
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    Depends on the type of Cedar you have, but the oils in some resist any glue adhesion. If you insist, try washing with Acitone first and using Polyurethane glue. "MY god what a mess" Yes it will be messy but it will work.
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    I've found Triton wood glue and selley's pva exterior (white glue) don't work very well at all on cedar.

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    I have made bandsaw boxes out of cedar and use Triton PVA. Holds well. The joints to be glued are matching (ie regluing parts cut previously with a bandsaw). Have you fine sanded the parts to be glued? This should give a greater surface area to be bonded.

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