Pssst, hey buddy, over here. Got any skin glue?

The thread at splitboard.com indicates BD thought the glue will be ready to ship to shops by January 15th, but the earlier the better, because I need some bad I heard from the local rep at Bergs as well that it's harder to ship due to the some of the ingredients being on the "list" of products that could be used for the wrong reasons by the wrong people......

Same problem for me...I went to several shops over the past few weeks and no luck. It would be a real bummer if they discontinue.

OMC... $20 to your door in a day and a half. Got mine today.

As for what I've heard about the task of applying this stuff to my skins... :-[

Hoping for the best

I've done a few. Spread the skin out on an old board like I was going to flesh out a real animal pelt. Getting the old off with the iron/paper bag technique took a lot of time. Applied with the brush on the center 1/3 of the skin and spread with an old credit card gave good results. Two coats.

I've got this down to a science by now, and it's not too bad. Take a beater iron that you don't care about (not your wax iron -- you'll never get the all the glue off, in my experience).

Crank up the iron and start running it along the skin (glue side) which you've stretched out on a board as Wooley describes. Follow right behind the iron with a 4" steel scraper/putty knife. You'll scrape off almost all the glue on the first pass, working in short sections and wiping old glue off the scraper every foot or so.

That'll produce a really clean skin. After touch up, apply a nice then coat of glue, then a second coat (and a third, if you want).

You're done. You can finish it with an ironing if you have some release paper or thick wax paper.

I can second the scraping technique that Marcus recommends!

I lay paper bag strips over the skins to save my iron. Heat up 2 to 3' real good, then pull the paper off, and scrape the glue off. A shop guy at Marmot recommended it to me and even gave me a scraper a few years back! Any thin flat edge metal should do the trick, ie putty knife...