Products of Potential Interest

[finescalerr]

A guy from Southern California named Mike Mueller phoned this afternoon. He is a cabinet maker who models logging railroads and scratch builds the structures. He mentioned two products we might find very useful.

The first is a kind of CA specifically for woodworking called Nexabond 2500. It sets up in a minute or so to enable you to position the work, needs no clamps, and does not get brittle (and thus lose shear strength). The website is http://www.bioformix.com/Products/. It is a professional product for industrial use, not one of those low cost adaptations model companies often repackage.

The second product is a wood stain called Jel'd Stain and, again, it is for professional use: http://www.woodkote.com. Supposedly its pigment is very fine, ideal for model work.

Maybe somebody here has used one product or the other and could comment. Maybe somebody will try one and report back. I hope this post is of some value but one never knows, do one?

Russ

[kneighbarger]

No, you never do............
Thanks for sharing, I will check them out.....
Ken

[eTraxx]

Russ, the link you posted for the Nexabond 2500 then links to their shop

http://shop.bioformix.com/

there, they have three versions .. NEXABOND 2500L - LONG HANDLING TIME .. NEXABOND 2500M - MEDIUM HANDLING TIME .. NEXABOND 2500S - SHORT HANDLING TIME

$7.78 for an ouce

[chester]

I have used the Jel'd stain in my cabinet work. It is very nice on large pieces because the color is very consistent throughout the grain (hard and soft grains in the same piece of wood often take stain very differently) Perhaps because the pigments are very fine as Russ mentioned and stay in suspension well. What I got was more like a dye and is water based. It didn't raise the grain either like many water based products do. Expensive and hard to find locally however.