english
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Pine resin is easily collected and manipulated. Basically, it is the result of the tree trying to heal itself (so some native American tribes would hit pines with large batons to encourage the overproduction of resin). You can collect it either from under the bark of the tree, or in dried form, on the outside. You just chip a bit off, put it on a flat section of a wide stick niear a fire, and let it melt. Then add either wood ash or beeswax, to plasticise it. Otherwise the resin is too brittle for most purposes. Make sure, when heating the resin and adding the ash, that the parts you want to glue are nearby and ready to assemble, because otherwise you would have to heat the resin again, and that can spoil it. Basically this is a summary of what other people have said - it is very easy, natural glue. I use it for a lot of things, because I can't use hide glue or others like it.
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