Using wood glue for my Tree Rounds? Good/Bad Idea?

[Joezilla]

I was toying with the idea of using wood glue to mount my newly made tulip poplar rounds to a plywood back board.

Why? I dunno if it would be bad to use nails or not.

Is there a wood glue strong enough to hold these heavy rounds up? Should I use small nails instead? Any suggestions?

 

[Watchful]

If you use enough of it, and clamp it for 12 hours, I'd say it should work pretty well.

Nails or screws in the round could of course damage the tip of your knives when (not if) you strike them.

I would think glue a good way to avoid it. And if I'm wrong, and it drops off the plywood after three throws--hey, didn't cost you much to find out.

Edited to add: pretty much any wood glue is pretty good stuff. Can't go wrong with Elmer's Wood Glue.

 

[Kevin the grey]

You might get away with it depending upon your skill with glues , the cleanliness of mating surfaces and how much shock vibration your target endures . Personally I throw one pound knives and other such things . They tend to abuse whatever I throw them at . I took some 14 inch stumps and set them on a tripod of sorts and spiked them in from the back with lotsa six inch spikes . That gives me eight inches of wood in front of those spikes . By the time I,m digging that far into the stumps I,ll just scare up some more . Course this might not go with the decor in a basement . A buddy of mine gets 4x4s and cuts them up in lengths to make a 2 foot square . He then gets a buddy with a pallet strap binder to bind them up on the sides . He even has some old seat belts strapped and bound on and he cinches them onto a tree or other backing to secure them . No bolts and the only nuts are the ones throwing the knives ! L:O:L