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It's not so much what happens if the law catches you... It's the farmer that I'm more worried about....

Better to start on a smaller scale if you ask me.....

You can find road kill animals all over the sides of the road come spring... Why not scrape up a dead cat and boil up a batch of Cat-glue?

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render that down, and you can get er dun

I'm not a fan of cat glue; it is difficult to control and often creeps when you least expect it. You can never seem to find it when you want it and it seems to turn up in the oddest places. For example, I often find my neighbor's cat glue squeeze out in my kids' sandbox...I know it's my neighbor's because I don't own any cat glue! It can, however, be reused up to 9 times.

Dog glue, on the other hand, is typically very adaptable and user friendly with a very tenacious bite. There are many varieties available for use in numerous applications. Many luthiers consider this glue to be their best friend in the shop. Oddly enough, it is made into soup in some countries, although that is generally frowned upon in Western cultures. For more information about dog glue, contact the KAC (K-9 Adhesive Consortium).

Now rabbit glue is a different animal altogether...talk about a fast-drying glue!

They still hang cattle rustlers here in Colorado. I hear tell of a mustang ranch in Nevada.
KB

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Boil down fish heads, or pigs feet. both are high in collagen or gelatin.

Little bit of salt , garlic, onion...mighty tasty soup.


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Dog glue, however, will make an extremely loud, harsh sounding guitar with a lot of wolf notes, and may produce an unpleasant sympathetic whine if you play any other guitar while it just hangs on the wall.

The cat glue is probably more suited to high-strung instruments, although it's not particularly reliable and may come unglued rather frequently, springing sharp bits of wood toward you and any other guitars in the room. However, despite all the drawbacks, it produces the sweetest tone of any glue, and becomes more mellow and reliable with age

Tortoise glue has such a long open time, you'll wonder if it's really drying at all. But if you're patient, the bond is extremely durable and creep-resistant, and will long outlast the wood on the guitar. You can dig up fossil glue lines of the stuff from ancient instruments made by monkeys. The fast working time of the rabbit glue may be tempting, and will work just fine as long as you never bump the instrument on anything, but in the real world, tortoise glue will almost always beat it.

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