I've had a small idea brewing for a bit until I no longer could ignore it - basically I want to adorn some wood scales with a stone cabochon. So yesterday I grabbed a half finished pair of scales and fitted a router bit on my dremel, and off I went.

Soon after I glued in some gold filled wire for a border, or a fake bezel if you will. I decided to use gorilla glue for the stone and fake bezel wire. After the fake bezel was set and glued, there was a little mess with the expanding glue, and I just used my thumbpad to carefully remove as much from the wire as I could, which of course lead to some gunk that just was smeared on to the wood scales.

I usually finish my wood scales in superglue. The scales in question was already treated with superglue, several layers, but they were not polished. I was thinking to sand off the gorilla glue gunk today, but the now hard and dry gorilla glue smear has left my scales shinier that ever, perhaps even shinier than what I usually get after buffing superglued scales.. So now I'm considering to keep it, and actually to do the rest of the scales in the same fashion.

Cyanoacrylate is a nice hard finish that will withstand the abuse of every day wear, and a well known finisher - but what about gorilla glue which is a polyurethane glue? I am not sure if it mattered that the scales already were treated w CA, but it might be that it acted like a barrier preventing the gorilla glue to soak into the wood, thus leaving this nice result. Anyways, I'm just trying to discover the pros and cons, if there are no ill side effects I might start using this method for my standard treatment.

Anyone have any thoughts, ideas or inputs?