Oily Wood Epoxy

[Exoticwood]

Does anyone know the brand of epoxy that Driskill guitars uses to glue up cocobolo?

He says on his web site it's special. I googled and there is one that is for oily exotics but it's pricey! I also would like anyones experience with desert ironwood gluing , wood name ,

Olnea Tesota .

[ddgman2001]

Most industrial epoxy suppliers i.e. West Systems, System3, etc will have epoxies and more importantly hardeners formulated for exotic woods. The good epoxy isn't that expensive on a volume basis. If you were to add up the cost of a gallon's worth of Devcon tubes, the industrial stuff would look like a real bargain.

[nollock]

I dont think west system has a special hardener / epoxy for oily woods. Iirc they just advize wiping the woods down with denatured alchohol prior to gluing.

One option is smith all wood epoxy.

Smith all wood epoxy at LMII

Another is Excel Polyurethane

Excel Polyuethane

chris

[Doc]

For a while I was gluing up teak and a few other nasty oily woods. We found that Borden's plastic resin glue was hard to compete with for a long term stable bond in difficult applications.

[Exoticwood]

Thanks everyone, I apreciate your help here. I was looking for an epoxy that claims to be for oily wood and the lmi smith epoxy says it is. Also I'm glad to have the Bordens alternative Doc. The reason I asked is that I have tried wiping with acetone many times on test pieces of coco and lignum and inevitably the joints fail. I also made up a few cutting boards and the joints failed with West system even though I scrubbed both sides with acetone and glued as soon as dry. So I was on Driskill's site and saw he was using something special and it looks like it might be the Lmi stuff. ~~ thanks