Yes hide glue is still available and used by the better restorer's. In
particular the gluing the bellows back on when you rebuild a player piano is
what I use it for. It enables it to be taken back apart again for another
rebuild and was what was usewd originally. If you use white glue you have
to saw them off!
Hide glue now available in flakes and is refined so it is normally not
smelly, unless you let it set to long too wet and mold forms.
Yes I used it in shop class too and know what you mean. That stuff
available then was not refined and decomposed.

"Baron" wrote in message
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Does it come in bottles now? I remember using hide glue back in the
1950's in wood shop. It came in chunks and had to be melted and kept
heated in an iron pot to use. I can still smell it.

I meant to say Elmer's glue. I could only remember the name Borden,
who makes it. Dairy, cows, cowhide, it's all related. I think Elmer
is Elsie the cow's husband.

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Franklin has been putting it in plastic squeeze bottles for some years
now. It contains urea to keep it from curing in the bottle at ambient
temperature. Outside the bottle, it cures over several hours but at least
you don't have to heat it up in a glue pot.