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Talked with a retired binder from the 60s last week and he laughed at my PVA glue setup
He told me he used to make his own wheat paste from scratch every morning and said the smell alone taught him more about paper grain than any book ever could, and now I'm wondering if I rely too much on modern stuff - anyone else ever switch their glue method and notice a real difference?
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henrycooper13d agoMost Upvoted
Yeah @elizabethhayes my buddy used wheat paste on a barn sign and it lasted ten years.
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blakem3713d ago
Secret sauce" is pretty on the nose. I did a fence mural with wheat paste like five years ago. It's still there, just a little faded. The trick is you gotta seal it with a clear coat after it dries or the rain will wreck it fast. My buddy skipped that step and his peeled off in two weeks.
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elizabethhayes14d ago
Is wheat paste just the secret sauce we're all missing? Maybe the old school methods actually do have some magic.
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Buddy of mine tried wheat paste on a plywood board for a mural. Stuff held up through three rainstorms and a heatwave before he took it down himself.
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