Features:

  • Good Quality material
  • This product is used for arts and craft work
  • This product is manufactured in United States
A Most Excellent Product, Indeed!

My wife and I use this to conserve jigsaw puzzles and have found that one well-spread, ample covering on the front of a puzzle is more than enough to keep the puzzle absolutely together and ready for saving or framing. In other words, applying the solution to the back of the puzzle is unnecessary, thus reducing the chance for "leak-through" and saving this excellent glue for use on the front of yet another puzzle. A most excellent product!

With the right technique, terrific results.

An 8 oz bottle will do about four 500 piece 24x18 puzzles with 3 coats on the front and 1 coat on the back. We do our puzzles on a piece of laminate countertop (a sink cut out) and I've found I can do the glue up right on that and dried puzzle glue peels off, easy as pie. That is convenient because you don't have to worry; you can just brush the edges to seal them too. I apply with a 3" non-cheapo paintbrush. (Nothing too expensive, but if you use a 99 cent chip brush you'll end up with bristles embedded in your work.) Clean up your brush with water before things dry. I do one coat on the front by pouring a tablespoon or so on a section at a time and brushing it out. It will pool in the joints, but that's good. Don't worry that it's very white and opaque, it dries clear. After the first coat is on reasonably thick, let it dry several hours, then flip the puzzle over, brush a single coat on the back, and let it dry for a few hours. Then flip back over to the front. At that point, you can do coats about once an hour to build whatever thickness you like. I do one more thick coat, sand smooth with 0000 steel wool to get rid of any brush marks and wipe it clean with a very slightly damp cloth. Then one last coat, very thin with a foam brush, and if there's any brush marks after it dries, a bit more 0000 steel wool. At this point the glued puzzle is quite study but with a bit of flex and a nice glossy surface (about as glossy as a standard puzzle's finish.)

For a puzzle

I bought a puzzle for my boyfriend as an anniversary gift and it had a ton of our photos on it so I wanted to buy something to keep the puzzle together. I found this and it worked amazingly! At first I was freaking out because it was white but once it dries up the glue turns clear and glossy. I love it and have been using it for numerous things ever since. I would recommend buying it through here and not a Michaels store. I feel like Michaels is way over priced.

Puzzle Saver

This worked to secure 1,000 pc. puzzle. I wanted to frame it and the glue held it together very well. There was no sheen to it, looks very natural.

Ideal if you are looking to convert your puzzle into a keepsake piece of art.

Ideal if you are looking to convert your puzzle into a keepsake piece of art. I read a few reviews that mentioned a concern with the glue seeping through and affecting the surface below the puzzle. While it's always a good idea to protect the work surface (we used a 13 gallon white trash bag, flattened), we didn't notice any seepage. This is likely due to the various qualities of puzzles vs. Mod Podge itself. We happen to love Ravensburger puzzles, the quality of their puzzles is such that there is no room between the thick pieces for seepage to occur. The first coat we applied was to the back of the puzzle as it made sense based on our project plan. After just one thin coat to the back of the puzzle, I could carefully pick up the 1000 piece puzzle as if it were a single piece. Easy to correct mistakes, and clean up is a breeze. Highly recommended! We used Mod Podge Scrapbooking Foam Brush Set, 24959 (4-Piece) < https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CH9LH86/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_27 > with the Mod Podge.

Nothing better! My puzzle dropped from where I was hanging ...

Nothing better! My puzzle dropped from where I was hanging it on the wall with double sided adhesive when I bumped into the wall hard and it didn't break! Hanging from about 5ft and not one piece came apart! Definitely superior glue for your puzzles. It does leave a slight film above it but it's not noticeable without bright light on it and unless you stand within a foot and even then it's not bad.

It's craft glue. It sticks stuff together, and dries clear, as glue should.

It sticks things together, as advertised. We used it on a puzzle, and I put a coat on both the front and back. One coat was plenty. Just keep in mind that you have to find a way to get the puzzle onto a piece of cardboard first, because the Mod Podge will get onto the table. How did I manage this? I happened to have one of those big old-timey wooden pizza paddles. If you don't have an old-timey pizza paddle, you can buy one on Amazon. And then actually use it on pizzas, as well.

Puzzle now framed on wall

Very easy to use liked the quality after used on puzzle and one coat was ample to cover my 750 piece puzzle. First time to use this so used on bottom of puzzle first to see how it worked and dried rather quickly and didn't lower the quality of the look of the picture so I did entire picture and after letting dry for about an hour maybe a little less I was able to frame and hangup. So I am pleased with and will continue to buy this product. Also I just did the front of the puzzle I could have turned over to do the back but didn't find that it was needed.

Works as it should

I have glued 4 puzzles of 3000 pieces+ and the results are consistent. It goes on white but dries clear. It does leave a texture behind, but in some way adds to the depth of the picture and makes it feel a little more alive. Usually we leave wax paper underneath our puzzle construction so that when we glue it the glue will just adhere to the sheets or the puzzle which is easy enough to clean up and throw away. If you don't the puzzle does tend to stick a little more with whatever you're working on your puzzle with but wont ruin your puzzle if you're careful. All in all this is the best puzzle glue on the market by the way it works. Pair with some sponge brushes and fill every little crack and you won't be disappointed.

Good puzzle glue

I purchased this to glue together a puzzle my girls wanted to hang in their club house. It worked really well gluing the pieces together. We even dropped it and all stayed put. Easy to apply with a foam brush. Dries quickly. I used parchment paper to protect my table when I applied it.

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