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Titebond III is an excellent glue. It sets up fast and although stated by the manufacturer as "water resistant" many woodworking authorities consider it "Waterproof." It is used for things like outdoor furniture, bird houses and other projects that are in the weather. It is also used for building boats. Personally, I use it rather than white glues.
The boat was built over five years ago and the trailer four years ago. I needed a small boat for the smaller inland lake fishing. It had to be light and portable, capable of handling SAFELY two people, have a good capacity, and mount a small electric motor along with oars for propulsion. Both are my own design, the trailer was an old double wide snowmobile trailer hauled out of the dump, and narrowed to provide a four foot width. It sleeps two people nicely, and has a rear compartment for cooking and food, and an inside overhead compartment for clothing, etc. It has traveled several thousand miles behind the SUV and over a lot of rougher roads without any cracking or separation. The boat is a pretty two sheets of standard 1/4 inch plywood as you have ever seen. The doors on the trailer were made overly large (once loaded TWO ELK into it through them) and on both sides (so that the other person could get out at night to relieve themselves without crawling over the other one.)..Standard 4 x 8 foot 1/4 inch plywood was used to make things simple, along with Titebond III on the trailer also.
I also had the chance to build a couple of gun stocks with some 5 layer 6mm Baltic Birch plywood that I salvaged from some computer equipment packing that was sent from Europe. It glued up nicely, although as mentioned, the glue they used was a bit hard on some of the finishing tools. (Titebond III is sandable.) The nice thing was that I could put the recesses into the stock for the magazine, trigger group, and even part of the barrel channel, along with a cut out recess in the butt stock if I planned them right and cut them out before assembly and gluing them together. Sure cut down on a lot of inletting.
The boat and the trailer have sat outside for four winters, without any covering.
For me, Titebond III is what I use for wood unless I find something better and more versatile.
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Titebond III is an excellent glue. It sets up fast and although stated by the manufacturer as "water resistant" many woodworking authorities consider it "Waterproof." It is used for things like outdoor furniture, bird houses and other projects that are in the weather. It is also used for building boats. Personally, I use it rather than white glues.
The boat was built over five years ago and the trailer four years ago. I needed a small boat for the smaller inland lake fishing. It had to be light and portable, capable of handling SAFELY two people, have a good capacity, and mount a small electric motor along with oars for propulsion. Both are my own design, the trailer was an old double wide snowmobile trailer hauled out of the dump, and narrowed to provide a four foot width. It sleeps two people nicely, and has a rear compartment for cooking and food, and an inside overhead compartment for clothing, etc. It has traveled several thousand miles behind the SUV and over a lot of rougher roads without any cracking or separation. The boat is a pretty two sheets of standard 1/4 inch plywood as you have ever seen. The doors on the trailer were made overly large (once loaded TWO ELK into it through them) and on both sides (so that the other person could get out at night to relieve themselves without crawling over the other one.)..Standard 4 x 8 foot 1/4 inch plywood was used to make things simple, along with Titebond III on the trailer also.
I also had the chance to build a couple of gun stocks with some 5 layer 6mm Baltic Birch plywood that I salvaged from some computer equipment packing that was sent from Europe. It glued up nicely, although as mentioned, the glue they used was a bit hard on some of the finishing tools. (Titebond III is sandable.) The nice thing was that I could put the recesses into the stock for the magazine, trigger group, and even part of the barrel channel, along with a cut out recess in the butt stock if I planned them right and cut them out before assembly and gluing them together. Sure cut down on a lot of inletting.
The boat and the trailer have sat outside for four winters, without any covering.
For me, Titebond III is what I use for wood unless I find something better and more versatile.
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