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Hot hide glue comes in pellet form, you mix with water and heat it up to use. It needs to stay warm during glue up so is fiddly to work, but dries really hard. Its thought to be good for guitar construction because it dries so hard. It also pulls joints together as it cures, and allows them to be steamed apart if needed.... this is great for things like violins.
Liquid hide glue is the same thing with added urea to keep it liquid at room temperature. The additives make it more like a normal glue with most of the benefits of HHG being lost.
Gibson fans get excited by the mention of hide glue for neck joints. You wouldn't use it for something like gluing the top to the body as it cools down too quickly when used over bigger areas and becomes unreliable
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Does it make any difference to tone? Quite likely not, however there’s no doubt it dries much much harder than titebond 1-3. And it is historically correct which is the whole point of the reissues. Urea Formaldehyde glue would likely be a good middle ground but it’s not very nice to work with
They didn't use hot hide glue for tops in the 50's, for the reasons I stated... it was Urea Formaldehyde or something like that. They did use hot hide glue for attaching necks and fingerboards
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