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When Not to Use Pottery Glue? — Spinning Pots

Terry Connor
5 min readSep 5, 2020

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What will you do if your favorite pottery cup or ceramic coffee mug breaks into pieces? Probably, you’ll certainly try to give it a new life by using an adhesive if the pieces are sizable enough to work with. And precisely this is where ceramic glues benefit us. It is a quick-fix solution for everything and works magically in rescuing the broken pieces of any item.

A good ceramic glue is not only capable enough to stick the broken pieces together but also gives a durable backup to your pottery. And that is why the use of ceramic glue is so widespread. So, adding an excellent ceramic glue to your pottery tool kit is undoubtedly going to be beneficial for you.

But do you know that choosing ceramic glue for all types of pottery pieces is not always the right decision? Though glue is indeed the best option to fix your broken pot, there are some drawbacks to using this adhesive. In this article, we are going to talk about those limitations. But before moving on to it, let’s have a quick study on the adhesives we usually use for ceramic wares.

What is meant by Ceramic Glue?

As evident from the name, ceramic glue is a kind of adhesive that we mainly use to stick together broken or cracked pottery pieces. These glues are usually stronger than any other regular glue that is used…

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Terry Connor
Terry Connor

Written by Terry Connor

I'm someone who is always looking to improve my life and others. Looking to be a better person spiritually and financially. Plus I love pottery and Cats.

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