Glue guns

[Tengu]

Does anyone use them?

Reading about craft projects online and many seem to use the infernal things.

I find them to put glue everywhere but where you want it.

When a fledgling I trained as a professional model maker, -and so yes, I can theoretically stick anything to everything with the minimum of fuss and bother.

To my mind, glue guns are the refuge of the craftily bankrupt, an easy option that does an ineffective and unprofessional job.

What do you think?

 

[Stew]

They have their place. It's just another tool in the arsenal that I use the appropriate one at the time. The glue gun is most handy for quick and temporary holding as opposed to clean, long term sticking.

 

[Gaudette]

Hate the things


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[leaky5]

I used one a lot at first in my bag making, but found the glue squeezed out, marked the material and is very hard to remove.

Now I tend to use them on only large internal areas, say where I want 2 layers of fabric to hold together long enough to sew them. For more
detail bits like binding, I now always use sail making tape.

 

[neoaliphant]

I use them a lot, in fact i have a glue stick and lighter on my belt for everyday, some weeks i use gluesticks more than my knife

tend not to use a glue gun unless at home.

very good for making christmas decorations out of holly etc and otehr home crafts
good for electronics
tend to use the glue with wet fingers to make holding toggles on zips and things, i use it a bit like resin i suppose.

i prefer the gluesticks themeselves to using the guns , makes less mess thatway, just warm up a blob, does get a bit sooty sometimes.

 

[Macaroon]

I wonder if there's one available that runs wet Weetabix? It seems, from another current thread, that that would do the job nicely !

 

[crosslandkelly]

I wonder if there's one available that runs wet Weetabix? It seems, from another current thread, that that would do the job nicely !

One of these would do that.

 

[Macaroon]

One of these would do that.

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We could go into bidness here, Colin!

 

[crosslandkelly]

Weetaglue gun. :You_Rock_

 

[Muddypaws]

I don't use my glue gun much on any finished projects, but it is very handy in the workshop, for temporarily sticking items down on the bench top, where a conventional clamp arrangement would get in the way (for example, when routing an edge profile onto a piece of wood). Yes they are messy, but great for sticking what you might want unstuck at some point.

 

[Robson Valley]

I agree = mostly for some temporary "fix". Oddly, some of those might last forever when I don't need it.
At the mock-up/model stage they are invaluable (with a pair of gloves on!).

I needed a pattern for a human masquerade(sp?) mask, later to be made of riveted aluminium sheet.
Shears, heavy card stock and a couple of GG. I could pull it apart and trim the pieces or cut new ones
and slop the thing back together. At the end, I cut it up for the pattern pieces.

 

[Native Nathan]

I use mine all the time.

I'm a parent of girls that love to break their toys and NEED daddy to fix it

 

[Tengu]

Oh, so you stick your kids to their toys?

Thats a novel approach to the tidying up problem...

 

[mikehill]

We use loads at the school. You can buy Draper mini ones which are more precise. Always leave them lying on their side instead of using the built-in stand and it won't leak everywhere

 

[leon-1]

All things have a place in life and craft. Glue guns are quick and easy, temporary in most cases. Good for the manufacture of blow darts if you know what you are doing.