Love of lathes.

[Alan Douglas]

I had never heard of "Barge glue" despite having worked with leather for years. It seems to be a brand name. The online description mentions protecting it from freezing, which would indicate that it is a polyvinyl acetate emulsion in water, but the Materials Safety Data Sheets only list three solvents (not the adhesive itself) and it's not water-based. The solvents are the same as what used to be sold by General Cement for gluing radio speakers, essentially model-airplane cement. I suppose it would work on leather, but no better than hide glue, in a dry environment.

There is a PVA adhesive that is not water-based; I used to have some on hand for book repairing. But since there are water-based PVA glues that remain flexible when they cure, I use those now.