Glue to attach a wood stem to a bowl.

BobH · Post by **BobH** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:12 pm

I have been messing with oil curing. Currently I have a pipe almost complete on the bench. The bowl is Osage Orange and the stem is Elm with a vulcanite Lovat bit. Both pieces of wood are oil cured.

The tenon on the wood stem is only a quarter of an inch where it is fitted to the bowl. There is very little meat left in the bowl to use a threaded rod to put them together for added strength. I am leaning toward using epoxy to join them.

Anyone have any experience in glue to do this with? This is my first time trying it on oil cured wood?

Other glues I have used on dry wood have been Titebond III, Gorilla Glue, and Super Glue gel.

http://home.woh.rr.com/aknots/images/Pi ... e-elm1.jpg

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:05 am

I use two-part epoxy for all the gluing I need to do on pipes. It can get messy if you're not careful - but it's not as bad as polyurethane glue....

LexKY_Pipe · Post by **LexKY_Pipe** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:54 pm

Kurt, can you be more specific? Is it just generic epoxy or is there a particular kind that you like?

kbosi · Post by **kbosi** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:03 pm

Try www.McMaster.com
Product # 7670A21

LexKY_Pipe · Post by **LexKY_Pipe** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:12 pm

What a website! Is there anything they don't stock?

BobH · Post by **BobH** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:26 pm

Thanks guys.

I have a few epoxy glues so 'll give it a try. I added some ridges to the tenon and mortise to help it stay in forever I hope.

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:37 pm

LexKY_Pipe wrote:What a website! Is there anything they don't stock?

Yes. Nickel silver discs 1/8" thick and 1" in diameter.

The epoxy I use is available from woodturnerscatalog.com - I like the T-88 structured epoxy:
http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/cgi-b ... y=167-0888

It's a slow-cure epoxy, 6-8 hours to set, 24 to working strength. I like it because I mix up a bunch of epoxy and batch a bunch of stems and shank extensions without the epoxy going hard an unuseable on me.

BobH · Post by **BobH** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:07 pm

Kurt, that is a LOT of Epoxy!!

WBill · Post by **WBill** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:24 pm

I don't have a answer to your question but I just posted a question of my own about oil curing briar. Any information you can share with me on this subject would be appreciated. You can email me if you like, lib7273@msn.com.

Thanks bill

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:31 am

BobH wrote:Kurt, that is a LOT of Epoxy!!

Buy in bulk!