"dalecue" wrote in message
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Hi,

Is there a preference of glue when doing metal to wood?
FWIW I've been doing this for 20+ years, and feel 2 part epoxy is the only
way to go

for titebond or wood glues in general, the idea is to penetrate into the
wood,
using thin coat(s) and clamp with lots of pressure,
so you basically wind up with the wood "stuck" to the wood,

with metal, 'penetration' is not possible, so you want the wood bonded to
one side of the epoxy and the metal bonded to the other, use a wider gap,
less clamp pressure

CA is only good for bonding things that you don't want to stay together
for very long

In reality, the way things hang together is by friction. Continuous
contiguous surfaces, if finely polished will actually do some influence
bonding at the atomic level. So a continuous film of glue is what you're
after, to make the surfaces exceptionally smooth.

http://www.thistothat.com/ is sort of fun, and has been pretty accurate.

Epoxies are the glues of choice in industry for bonding to metals.