Bonnie, I doubt the boys at Home Depot will give you more than blank stares and disappear muttering about finding someone else to help you, if you ask them something more complicated than "white or yellow".

So I spent the day getting the scoop from Oskar, who as I said is a highly-regarded luthier with 30 years in the trade, and Scotsbard et al to the contrary, he glues almost everything with YELLOW CARPENTERS GLUE. But he specifies Elmers, not Lepage. Not kidding here. He makes beautifully joined, durable, great-sounding guitars, which are bought by very knowledgable and talented musicians (obviously I don't have one) at a starting price of about $3600 Cdn. He uses hide glue for joining tops and little else--doesn't care for the quick setup time, and says he never learned to use resin glues. (He allows that it can be a bugger to get a bridge off when necessary for replacement...)

He also said he uses West System epoxy in really, really desperate bridge repairs, as in on a cedar top that just doesn't want to hold it on...and Krazy Glue for crack repair.

He also says that American luthiers are generally a bit gadget-crazy; as an aging back-to-the-lander he prefers a more organic approach, although he is considering getting some power tools someday. It seems the trained beavers that do his resawing and shaping are getting more demanding and less productive...chalk it up to progress I supposed.

I remain your east Ontario correspondent...
Willie-O