Help with choosing wood glue

[Fjonken]

Hey!
I'm planning to glue together some planks of oak and walnut. I'm thinking of biscuit joining and using clamps and have looked at Titebond, which is supposed to be really good, but there are delivery times on it. Bauhaus has Gorilla glue on the shelf. Those of you with experience, what do you think?
I'm going to use the wood for various pieces of furniture.
Thanks a lot!

 

[Hep]

Oak and walnut do not have any special requirements, so any regular wood glue/white glue works well. If you have easy access to Bauhaus:
https://www.bauhaus.se/tralim-casco-inne-750-ml

 

[Danne824]

No idea how it is with furniture carpentry, but in wooden boats, we use 2-component glue specifically for oak.

 

[Fjonken]

Oak and walnut don't have any special requirements, so any common wood glue/white glue works well. If you are close to Bauhaus:
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Does it hold even if the wood decides to dry a bit more? The downside with, for example, Titebond, if I understand it correctly, is that it's not fun to handle when it's cured. The same goes for 2k. But I'll try a few pieces with what you recommend .
Thanks!

 

[Hep]

No idea how it is with furniture carpentry, but in wooden boats, we use 2-component glue specifically for oak.

It's probably more about the environment than the type of wood. Indoors for furniture, regular wood glue/white glue is used.

 

[Hep]

Will it still hold if the wood chooses to dry a bit more? The downside of, for instance, Titebond if I understand correctly, is that it's not very fun to handle when it's cured. The same goes for 2k. But I'll try a few pieces with what you recommend.
Thanks!

Now I'm wondering which Titebond you looked at. Their “Original Wood Glue” is nothing special, it behaves like any wood glue. Titebond has a lot of different types of glue that probably behave completely differently, but you don’t need them for oak and walnut in furniture.

If you mean the wood isn’t completely dry, you will have problems regardless of the type of glue. At least if you're building something that can't handle the wood shrinking.

 

[Intet]

When I re-glued my oak chairs, I also used regular white glue after asking a friend who builds, among other things, furniture on order.

 

[Danne824]

It probably depends more on the environment than on the type of wood. Indoors for furniture, regular wood glue/white glue is used.

No, oak is acidic and a ring-porous wood, if it is solid oak then epoxy or polyurethane glue is preferred, we choose an epoxy that is specifically adapted for oak.

 

[Hep]

No, oak is acidic and a ring-porous wood species, if it's homogeneous oak then epoxy or polyurethane glue is preferable, we choose an epoxy that is specifically adapted for oak.

For indoor furniture, it's just unnecessary and messy to use anything other than regular wood glue. If you use something else when building boats, that's obviously up to you. But don't blame the poor oak.

 

[Intet]

No, oak is acidic and a ring-porous wood, if it is homogeneous oak then epoxy or polyurethane glue is preferred, we choose an epoxy that is specifically adapted for oak.

I suggested PU glue for the good furniture maker but he thought it was a bad idea. Wood glue, it shall be!

 

[Hep]

I suggested PU glue for the good furniture maker but he thought it was a bad idea. White glue, it should be!

PU is commonly used when bending and laminating and the oak wood is wet. But that's probably not what the thread is about.

 

[heimlaga]

Epoxy works poorly on oak. Polyurethane glue is not quite as waterproof as it should be in a boat. Quality-conscious boat builders use resorcinol-phenol glue when bonding oak. And they still don't fully trust the glued joints. Oak in outdoor conditions is extremely difficult to glue due to the tannic acids.

Fortunately, oak is significantly easier to glue in indoor conditions, so regular white woodworking glue is usually used there.

 

[Danne824]

I suggested PU glue to the good furniture maker but he thought it was a bad idea. It must be white glue!

Yes, I would have preferred your suggestion, we use epoxy when it comes to oak and mahogany. Oak that is exposed to moisture we pre-treat with lignu, a type of epoxy but penetrates much deeper into the wood and then glue with epoxy.

 

[Fjonken]

Thank you for all the great answers!
I ordered this little kit, gorilla and a bottle of casco, arriving on Monday

 

[Danne824]

thanks for all the great answers!
I ordered this little kit, gorilla and a bottle of casco, it's coming on Monday

Sounds good, we primarily use products from https://rotdoctor.com/ but there are a plethora of other manufacturers with the same type of range and which surely do not need to be imported.