Contact Cement vs White Glue: Stress Testing Leather Adhesives

Curious to know which leather glues are the strongest? So were we! Watch Corbin our Leather Specialist test the holding strength of four types of adhesive you can use on your leather projects. He tests contact cement, a water-based glue, adhesive spray and basting tape. You'll be surprised by what we found. Watch the video to discover which glues and cure times produce the strongest bonds.

Materials and Tools Used:

One Stop Leathercraft Resource: https://www.sailrite.com/leathercrafting
Basting Tape: https://www.sailrite.com/Notions/Doub...
S-18 Contact Cement: https://www.sailrite.com/S-18-All-Pur...
Leather Glue Brush Set: https://www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Lea...
Fiebing's Leather Craft Cement: https://www.sailrite.com/Fiebings-Lea...
Glue Mat: https://www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Sil...
CushionRite® Adhesive: https://www.sailrite.com/CushionRite-...
Leather Roughing Tool: https://www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Sta...
Veg Tan Leather https://www.sailrite.com/shop/leather...

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Glues we are testing
1:15 My Hypothesis for the best glues
2:00 The Experiment
2:51 Basting Tape VS Leather
3:39 Fiebing's No Roughing VS Leather
4:15 CushionRite® Adhesive VS Leather
5:10 Fiebing's Set 5 Minutes VS Leather
5:57 S-18 No Roughing VS Leather
6:59 Fiebing's Immediate VS Leather
7:41 S-18 Immediate VS Leather
8:05 S-18 set 15 Minutes VS Leather
8:41 S-18 set 5 Minutes VS Leather
9:17 2 Coats of S-18 VS Leather
10:36 Hypothesis results
10:53 Breaking down the results
11:26 Biggest Takeaways
12:25 Outro