CA glue - what's your flavor?

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Maelstrom78

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I have come to the conclusion that part of a knifemaking shop included different kinds of CA glue.

I only have the very thin glue from Tru Grit as of now and it really penetrates materials. It was too thin to fill in a gap I had in a set of scales so now I am on the hunt for more kinds.

I think that one should have:

-Super thin for penetration
-Medium for small gap filling
-Small bottle of the thicker stuff for larger gaps
-Curing catalyst because who has 10 seconds for things to dry?
-Debonder for debonding stuff and doing the Bruce Bump method of CA-ing handles.

That brings me to my question of what flavor ppl like?

Starbond
BSI (seems like knife supply places sell this with their sticker on it) http://www.amazon.com/Insta-cure-ga...e=UTF8&qid=1423581521&sr=8-1&keywords=ca+glue
EZ-Bond

These are the choices I have read referred to on knife forums.

Thanks!
 
I buy BSI from the hobby shop. As you mentioned it's re-labled. I use insta-set, but I use it when I have thick glue build up that takes a while to dry on its own.

Oddly enough, I read about how smoke does the same thing. I tried it and damn if it ain't true. I don't use the method, obviously it stinks, but it does work.

Is de-bonder better than acetone? I've always been curious, but acetone works fairly well.
 
From what I understand the smoke works because it is alkaline which speeds up the curing process.

I haven't read if acetone is the same as the marketed debonder. I think maybe some nitromethane with acetone or something?

I have read that if you keep an open container in the refridgerator it keeps for quite some time. I'm tempted to buy a larger amount to save by volume but then again I average maybe 1.5 knives/month so it might not be worth it.
 
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