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adhesive suggestions for jewelry
What glue/adhesive do you use for fastening jewels/metal to brooch settings, fabric, and other jewelry? Thanks for your help :)
What glue/adhesive do you use for fastening jewels/metal to brooch settings, fabric, and other jewelry? Thanks for your help :)
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9 years ago
I have to agree with Jessy here, E6000 is a very NICE jeweler's glue (and useful for a lot of other things also). :-)
9 years ago
I do a lot of gluing things together, and my favorite glues are the following:
E6000: great at mixed media stuff and it dries clear. You can adhere wood/metal/plastic/rubber... all kinds of things!
Aleene's 7800: same as the E600, really great for mixed media work. Perhaps not as strong, but awesome.
Elmer's Super Fast Epoxy: adheres anything. Seriously. I love it. I used it for Lego cufflinks.
Fabri-Tac: for any fabric. Works better than anything else I've used.
And the best part is that all of the above dry clear. :D
9 years ago
To glue hard materials to hard materials with reasonably smooth surfaces, I would use superglue.
If the objects did not have good contact surfaces (rough, curved-to-flat etc), I would use a drop of hot-glue or two-part epoxy.
To glue together absorbent materials, I would use PVA craft glue, or specialist fabric glue.
To bond fabrics, I would suggest sewing.