Thread: Glue for Coticule

I used some epoxy to join a vintage coticule recently. It was a glued yellow/bbw and I let it slip from my fingers one day and it fell a few inches to a table top. The two halves separated and the yellow broke one third of the way from the end. After I dried my tears I had to lap the residue off of the glued portion to re-glue.

I used Loctite Professional Epoxy that I picked up at Home Depot. This stuff is really good and I have used it for other things and always so far so good. Now when I put the three pieces together everything seemed to line up perfectly to where it appeared that once cured I would be able to lap the hone and run a razor over the cracked portion without catching the crack.

I laid it on a countertop and applied the epoxy and then I put a couple of diamond plates on it for weight. Unfortunately whether from the weight or being mistaken as to the position of the broken yellow the edge catches the cracked area.

So I put the hone in the oven at 200 degrees for 45 minutes and it was still stuck firmly together. I soaked it for a week and no change. So the moral of my story is if you use epoxy make certain that you have the pieces where you want them to start with.