![]() If you need to glue something that will live under water you need their original Gorilla Glue, the polyurethane version again. This Gorilla® Wood Glue can be used on indoor and outdoor projects as long as they are not submerged in water. That is the industry standard test to earn the “water resistant” label. Gorilla® Wood Glue is classified as and has passed the tests for the ASNI/HPVA Type II glues. Their polyurethane-based Gorilla Glue can handle those miss match situations. Gorilla® Wood Glue is not meant for gluing other stuff to wood. It is sandable and paintable so you can use it for just about any job in the shop or around the home that involves gluing wood to wood. Gorilla® Wood Glue dries to a neutral tan color that blends well with most wood grains. I generally favor the scraping technique with this type of glue but either way seems to work just fine with Gorilla® Wood Glue depending on the situation. Later I will try scraping it off so we can see how Gorilla® Wood Glue responds to these very common techniques. I used a damp paper towel to clean up one side of the board glue up but let the squeeze out dry on the other side. I “accidentally” applied a bit too much Gorilla® Wood Glue when doing our test glue ups. ![]() Most of us dramatically underestimate how long ten minutes really is anyway. If you can’t get a portion of the project assembled in 10 minutes you need to come up with a different plan. The 5 to 10 minute open working time of Gorilla® Wood Glue seems about right for a bunch of woodworkers and myself, even when I am gluing up dovetails. Once the parts were glues they went into the clamps for only 20-miuntes (right) and then removed and set aside to cure for 24 hours as per the instructions. I over did the glue a little (left) so we could try the main glue cleanup techniques here also. I have done that for you and we will look at that later in this review and on the accompanying video. As with any glue, you need good fitting joints and clamps applied with enough pressure to keep the pieces pressed together. One thing that isn’t new with the Gorilla® Wood Glue is the need to apply it in a thin coat evenly on both surfaces being joined. The Gorilla folks haven’t visited my shop ever and certainly not during the winter months but it sure seems like they have been watching or something! The performance of the Gorilla® Wood Glue has been very good throughout my testing but more on that a bit later in this review. Gorilla also found a way to lower the minimum ambient temperature that is necessary to achieve a good bond to 50-degrees. ![]() ![]() You do have to let Gorilla® Wood Glue dry overnight for the maximum bond but in most cases you can remove the clamps in just 20-minutes and it develops roughly 80% of its total bond strength in just 1 to 2 hours! That means you can move projects along more quickly without weakening the glue joints. Gorilla® Wood Glue is a cross-linked polyvinyl acetate (PVA) that has been designed to produce higher than normal bond strength with a shorter clamp time. Not surprisingly this new type of woodworking glue is tough and easy to work with. Now those same people have taken a fresh look at the regular woodworking glues we use and they came up with Gorilla® Wood Glue. I liked the relatively long open time for applying it to complicated joints like dovetails and the near bulletproof strength when cured. I had the opportunity to try out the original Gorilla (polyurethane) Glue several years ago and have used it myself ever since. Gorilla® Wood Glue Strong, quick and American Made Besides the price and performance of this new wood glue the fact that it is Made in America makes it even more attractive! It was not a big surprise to hear the the Gorilla Glue folks had come up with their own wood glue.
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