Granulation glue

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i believe hide glue is also used…

Hide Glue [Was: Granulation]

Debra Wrote… These granules were placed on the sterling or fine sheet with a mixture of hide glue and water and then fused..... Debra, Thanks for the advice. Can you tell me what "hide glue" is. Thanks MILT Milt and Maxine Fischbein

Hide glue & granulation

In April issue of Lapidary Journal there is a granulation project by Jack & Elizabeth Gulatieri that included holding granules in place with Klyr-Fire. It says place the “glue laden” granules in place and that the “glue” should dry in 10-15min. Sounded like it would solve a placement problem for me so I’ve tried it. After many hours the Klyr-Fire is still soft. The article does not say to heat (before or after) to dry. I don’t know if the Klyr-Fire that I bought is old or bad or th…

Alternate granulation glues

Hi all, The recent topic of hide glue has me thinking about a question. In Carles Codina’s book, “The Complete Book of Jewelry Making”, he mentions several organic binders to be used to attach the granules. The key being that they are organic so that they will emit carbon. Two he mentions are gum tragacanth and gum arabic. So my question is, has anyone used something like this other than regular hide glue? This may sound silly to many but I am vegan and like to make a plant based choice w…

julie