Canadian wood products industries . Standardized by SOyears of service. Canadian Woodworker and Furniture Manufacturer. MONITE WATERPROOF GLUE,the modern scientific perfection ofancient casein glue, surpasses theglue of Egypt just as the modernsteel and aluminum automobile ex-cels the clumsy cedar and bronzechariot of the Pharaons. Corner posts and end of an Egyp-tian Mummy-case now in the BerlinMuseum—2700 years old. Panels and Glue-Joints 3,000 Years Old! The following is translated from pp. 56-7 of The Story of Furniture (Geschichtedes Mobels) by A. Koeppen and C. Breuer, published at Berli
Canadian wood products industries . Standardized by SOyears of service. Canadian Woodworker and Furniture Manufacturer. MONITE WATERPROOF GLUE,the modern scientific perfection ofancient casein glue, surpasses theglue of Egypt just as the modernsteel and aluminum automobile ex-cels the clumsy cedar and bronzechariot of the Pharaons. Corner posts and end of an Egyp-tian Mummy-case now in the BerlinMuseum—2700 years old. Panels and Glue-Joints 3,000 Years Old! The following is translated from pp. 56-7 of The Story of Furniture (Geschichtedes Mobels) by A. Koeppen and C. Breuer, published at Berlin in 1904. The Ancient Egyptians already em-ployed the art of ennobling an ordinarywood by gluing on thin layers of costlywoods. For example, the corner posts ofa large mummy-case now in the Berlin Mus-eum are overlaid with a veneer almost onecentimeter thick—as can clearly be seen where a small part of the veneer is brokenoff. To bind together smoothened woodsurfaces, the Egyptians used, even as it iscustomary today, curd glue, a mixture ofcasein and caustic lime—which glue has theadvantage of being insolub
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