Talk:Animal glue

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[edit] Bolded words

Why are some words bolded? Any reason?

Changed to quote marks or italics as appropriate. Is OK? Just plain Bill 23:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, remnants of the style recommendation of putting first occurrences of subject and alternative titles in bold, that were mostly obsoleted by the added content. Femto 11:26, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Hide glue

Unless anyone objects in the next few days, I propose to bring text from hide glue to this article, and have that article redirect here. __Just plain Bill (talk) 13:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

If you're going ahead with this merge, can you please swallow "hoof glue" too. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

I still have reservations about this merge (but I didn't fix it myself first, so that's my problem). There are three sorts of glue (hide, rabbi-skin, fish) and they're all distinct. I'd hate to see it swallow rabbit-skin or fish too.

I had some reservations as well, and it's good to see interest being shown. I use hide glue a lot, but am only familiar with rabbit and fish glue from my reading, such as Ralph Mayer's reference tome on artists' materials. Hoof glue is a new one to me. It might be a good idea to separate Hide glue out again, or perhaps not, swallowing hoof glue as well, as you suggest. I'll be watching this space... __Just plain Bill (talk) 16:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

I think ideally (if I'd got off my arse) I'd have done this as a very thin article on "animal glue" with "Main article this way" links out above each of three one- or two-para sections on each glue. So the majority of the content would still be in the hide article.

All I know about "hoof" suggests that it's a lower grade of hide, usually handled as the old "Scotch" glue in large cakes rather than pearls. It's a bit more temperamental to work with, owing to the big lumps, but otherwise the same.

I've used rabbit-skin a fair bit in bookbinding and leatherwork (leather to wood), also as a constituent of gessos and compo. It's very like hide glue, only flexible when dry. I'm no artist, so I'm not familiar with it for sizing. Fish-skin glue I've used for hiding nails and pins, because of the high initial tack (Lee Valley sell a tiny bottle of it, with their hidden-nailing jig). Some people also use it for picture framing, for the same reason. I've also tried it for sticking fish leathers down, but found it a bit unpleasant to work with, so went to either petroleum contact adhesives or rabbit-skin instead. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Thin article with links from sub-sections seems like a better way to get it organized than the way it is now. If I get off my bum before you get off your (horse, was it?) then that's the way we'll soon see it. __Just plain Bill (talk) 17:35, 1 May 2008 (UTC)