Luthiers Mercantile (LMI) Closing up Shop!

[Walter W Wright]

and their excellent "FGX" yellow wood glue is already sold out :(

suggestions for a replacement? anybody know anything about titebond 50?

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@Russell Vance -  "This not to say that “Well meaning professionals” are necessarily right all the time ( Space Shuttles for instance). "

That comment is wildly inaproppriate because there were "Well meaning professionals" that were right and were overruled by bureaucrats on Jan. 26th, 1986.

Here, these were a few well meaning professionals:

Bob Ebeling

Allan McDonald

Roger Boisjoly

Rocco Petrone

[Russell Vance]

Sigh,

NASA as an organisation is professional by definition and my comments reflect this as a generalised way of showing a fair approach to paying respect to both amateurs and pros alike.  

I am well aware of the decision making that was made by the whole management group (including the engineering inputs) for both disasters - so please rest assured that while you may wish to ventilate the finer details and apportion blame regarding these things, it is in no way linked to the meaning of my comments on the issue that is at hand.  

But as I said, I seldom comment these days because we have guitars to build and a repair shop to run and wasting time here answering questions or justifying unrelated historical analogues that have nothing to do with guitars is not high on my list of things to do. QED. 
Rusty.

[Walter W Wright]

two pages in and i'm not much closer to an answer than before, about either the LMI glue or the merits of titebond 50 beyond an assertion that the 50 was like epoxy with no further elaboration

i did get called an amateur hack though, that was new 

[Taffy Evans]

Hi, I did not respond to your question as I did not have any experience with Titebond 50. However, you sparked my interest and I found a supplier that states that they use that glue on their guitars, I saw that in their advertising for the product, it has the words guitar on the label.

The site has information about the glue uses. Check out BYO Guitars. No promises this is what you wanted, but it might be a start.

Cheers Taff

[Walter W Wright]

i've seen that!

they sell it in rational-sized 8oz bottles and claim it's all they use for building their guitars

thing is, that's like one single data point in favor of the stuff from someplace i've never heard of and even then i don't get a clear picture of why it would be better (what i saw was mostly the same boilerplate from the titebond website)

combine that with the one data point against from a poster here i've also never heard of, also with not much explanation why not, and i'm still kind of stuck at the starting point

[Taffy Evans]

Hi Walter, sorry that was no help. Well at times like this what I do, and have done many times in the past, is to check it out for myself.

I do my own research and testing. I often find that often other builders' ideas differ from my own at times so I like to find out for myself if a product suits my needs or not. 

I would tend to think that it may not be the most suitable glue for fine guitar work, or else others here would be all over it by now, but it's worthwhile finding out for oneself. Good luck.

Taff

[Walter W Wright]

dang it you're probably right

the overall point about not using "irreversible" glues for guitar building is well taken and that's totally not what i'm interested in anyway (being a fixer rather than a builder)