Elmer's CraftBond Extra Strength Glue Sticks, 6 Grams, 4 Count

great price and quality! it does take a little bit to fully dry!

I cant say i know too much about standard adhesive glue sticks. So, upon buying. I just needed a small pack as i am assuming it will go a long way, been using the completely wrong type of glue for certain things when all i needed was some cheap craft. I am in the sneaker business for roughly 20 years. Regular glue sticks. Don’t pertain to the everyday life in my business. Between Buying, selling, collecting, one thing is for sure. I keep all my sneaker boxes and in the most pristine condition possible. This includes the labels that come on the box as well. Mainly Collectors (which it seems more and more are popping up everyday), do not like to get their sneaker boxes in poor condition. Obviously this pertains true to both buyers and sellers as well. Even though it’s just the box. There is a serious decrease in value, when a box is messed up. Outlets such as Nike & Adidas, since they do not want resellers going in and buying up every pair of the “HYPED ITEMS” as they want all consumers to get a pair at the under retail price instead of one or 2 people getting them all and making double. The outlets rip the lids off the boxes so as to not be able to sell on certain apps. When they can though on goat or eBay. They will atleast take a price hit. Sorry for that long back story. But this is where my review comes in and why I’m going to tell you why this glue works for what i use it for and how it holds well. I receive plenty of pairs that i buy online without lids. Which is fine but I’m able to find brand new boxes all the time, whether it’s to a person i buy from online, or sell to in person & maybe that buyer doesn’t need the box, i always ask if i can keep the box. At this point. Any pair that i have listed, once it sells & the box is damaged. (HAPPENS A LOT CONSIDERING I HAVE 1,000+ PAIRS, THEY ALL NEED TO STACK AND THE OLDER ONES CRUSH). So, i heat up the label both on the brand new boxes and take the label off that box with a heat gun which takes off a lot of the glue behind the label. Then, i take it off the same way with the damaged box and have had no issue a lot of the times sticking it right onto the new box but the corners a ton of times, they really don’t stick perfectly. Truth is, even if i sell on an app. The buyer doesn’t know who i am, but i really care about the seller because i hate when i get a box in bad shape and i don’t want that to happen to my buyer. Just unfair. So, this glue. Which i have been using only for a week. For sticky paper like labels to stick to cardboard boxes (some boxes are different materials but 99% are cardboard). Not one issue. Yet, in the past. I never used glue sticks. Just because i didn’t have them in my house. I have cement glue for restorations which keep MidSoles and tops and outsoles of sneakers together. Supporting hundreds of pounds of a person wearing them and for years at a time but will not allow a piece of paper and cardboard to stay together? Seems like it makes no sense. Same thing with crazy glue. Never ever works. But, THESE GLUE STICKS. come out clear. They work perfectly. So if you’re having an issue with it. Let me tell you one thing. Please look into using a different type of glue. Not a different type of glue stick. But there are many different types of ways to glue things. Glue guns - great for patches. For fabric to fabric, plastic to fabric. Cement glue - great for rubber and restorations. Among a million other things. Can use that for even tiling a bathroom. (By the way. If you do sneaker restoration. Use barge cement glue). Best by far. Crazy glue. I use gorilla glue for plenty of things. But, this glue stick for a quick fix on a light item. Paper to plastic. Paper to paper. To cardboard and so on. (Pretty much think of when you were younger. When you had to buy glue as a kid in elementary school, it’s for that kind of things and this item seems like a great one. Again, i haven’t tried many. But it’s the amazon choice. Soooo.....why not give it a try and when i say try. Try it. Don’t give it one shot and shoot it a bad review. Because i see so many people do that. I try my items, never would i ever try it once, or if an item came damaged. Not try it and write an awful review like i see so many Do There’s a reason this is the top amazon choice. It’s because it’s good FOR THE WAY YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO USE IT. JUST MAKE SURE ITS FOR THE RIGHT TYPE OF CRAFT I AM REALLY HOPINF THIS HELPS PEOPLE MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION AND IF WRITING A REVIEW. WRITE IT AFTER ACTUAL USE (AND READ THE ITEM DESCRIPTION BEFORE PURCHASE AND READ THE ITEM SPECIFICATIONS AS WELL AS THE COMPARISONS). WHEN YOU DONT DO THAT. YOU MIGHT BE TURNING PEOPLE AWAY. FROM A PRODUCT THAT ACTUALLY MIGHT BE PERFECT FOR WHAT THE PERSON BUYING THE ITEM NEEDS IT FOR..... Just remember. Glue sticks were popular when u were 4-10 years old. So it’s not for projects probably that have nothing to do with items used back then. Oh. And ELMERS GLUE IS THE ONLY BRAND THAT IS A HOUSEHOLD BRAND THAT EVERYONE KNOWS. SO CLEARLY THIS ONE IS ONE OF THE BETTER PRODUCTS. BRANDS SPEAK VOLUME. DONT BUY AN ITEM A DOLLAR CHEAPER. ITS NOT WORTH IT.

I used these glue sticks to attach scroll‑saw patterns to wood, and the repositionable formula made it easy to align the paper without tearing fibers or leaving residue. The adhesive grabs evenly, releases cleanly after cutting, and doesn’t wrinkle the pattern when applied, which keeps lines sharp and accurate during detailed work, making this a dependable option for temporary bonding, craft layout, and precision woodworking setups.

I purchased this glue for a scrapbook project. It adheres really well especially to scrapbook paper. It is affordable and im sure there are more projects I could use this glue for. Its been about a month with the scrapbook and no pictures have fell off or started to peel off. The only thing I did not like about it was that the end of the glue stick would just fall off when it started to run out. I think a better design would stop the end of the glue from falling off. Overall, a great glue for scrapbooking!

Good product to use when making junk journals

Never had used this type of Elmer's but now my craft room with not be without it. I have wasted so much money in "specialized glues" in a tube that only end up hardening. Not to mention messy. I was using a liquid bonding adhesive specifically designed for applying crystals. Due to the type of fabric I could not use my crystal heat applicator or a hot glue gun. It was taking me forever. Hold tiny crystal with tweezers, squeeze a dab of the adhesive, press and hold onto the fabric till it set. A friend came to visit and was admiring my project. I remarked, "Yeh, looks great but do you know how long it has taken me to secure just one crystal? I am getting so frustrated." She asked me why I wasn't using Elmers Craft Glue in a stick. Swipe the crystal, stick, and done. I remarked, Elmers won't work-not strong enough. It's more for paper. She laughed and said,"not the Elmer's regular school multi-purpose glue, the craft glue. You can find it at any of the craft stores." I do not like shopping in craft stores because it takes me hours to leave as I live crafts so I hit Amazon. Super fast delivery, no tempting extra craft items in my basket. I bought the package size due to the amount craft projects I design and create. If it didn't work on the crystals I was sure I could find a purpose for it. WORKS!!! I was so thrilled. I had my project finished in a few hours, what would have taken me days. HIGHLY RECOMMEND for anyone into crafting. If you don't have at least one tube in your "craft stash" you are not equipped. Like a painter without a brush. Try it, you'll LOVE IT, not Just LIKE IT. Hope this helps crafters that get so frustrated with trying to choose the right glue,dispared at the cost of "specialized glues", and the anger they feel when they take the cap off a tube of hardened glue tube.

I didn't know these existed until a few years back when I first began my decent into junk journaling. Don't get me wrong I love the hand held tape despncers but when those run out of tape often it hurts the wallet. The craft glue sticks are the best! I appreciate that they are a bit thicker with applying rather than the bulk one they sell for school. I found that the seals tend to stay better than the purple sticks as well. Whenever these packs go on sale for back to school it's a must to grab a pack or three to buy me some time until the next sale. Even without a sale they are still affordable and worth it if you don't want a project falling apart. Over all great glue for your paper crafts. 10/10

OK it’s not easy to get a five star rating out of me, but it has been done and this is one of the products. This is not your average glue stick… This is a much stronger bond glue it’s perfect, because it glides on super easy, and yet it’s a glue stick meaning the glue is a smooth paste, and the best part is it sticks extremely well! I would say that it has the same bonding power as tacky glue, except without the wetness that usually wrinkles my paper… This is perfect for paper because it does not wrinkle paper, and yet you get a very strong bond. I’d say that it’s forgiving in the first few seconds, but then it does it here when I found out that I made a mistake a couple minutes later, I tried ripping the paper off thinking that oh, it’s a glue stick, so it should come off easily… Nope, it stuck on there very well, and it was difficult to take off the paper, to my pleasant surprise. I ended up having the paper stuck permanently onto the cardboard that I was gluing it on and it would not come off and it still hasn’t… So I am very pleased with how it adhered because that’s my number one complaints with glue sticks, is that the glue is weak, this one, however, is amazing and I’m gonna be ordering more!