Urea formaldehyde resins \u2013 known as UF resins in the trade \u2013 are among the oldest synthetic glues, dating right back to the nineteenth century. Despite ranking as one of the ‘senior citizens’ of industrial chemistry, they remain a pretty good all-purpose solution for woodworking, with some specific advantages that make them the choice of a number of Redwood clients.<\/p>\n
Let’s take a look at the positives and negatives of working with UF resins, and the unique benefits you can expect when you source them from Redwood.<\/p>\n
Points in favour of UF resins…<\/strong><\/p>\n They exhibit less bleed-through than other veneer glues, especially when you use an extender to thicken up the resin<\/p>\n …and against<\/strong><\/p>\n UF resins also have a number of downsides:<\/p>\n Buying UF resins from Redwood<\/strong><\/p>\n When you source UF resins and other adhesives from Redwood, you’ll enjoy the following advantages:<\/p>\n Keep your gluing options open…and keep calling Redwood with all your adhesive and treatment queries.<\/p>\n * Redwood stocks One-Shot UF Adhesive, a ‘just add water’ powdered resin that has been in continuous production since the 1930s. One-Shot\u2019s excellent waterproofing makes it a useful addition to the line up, but it’s a bit eccentric by 2022 standards. We’ll publish a One-Shot brief shortly\u2026watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Urea formaldehyde resins \u2013 known as UF resins in the trade \u2013 are among the oldest synthetic glues, dating right back to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,1,468,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adhesives","category-all-articles","category-anchor-adhesives","category-helpful-guides"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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