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jamibad wrote: tigerlilly, I'm a little late on this subject and read your questions on what to use as a glue for a table top and also the other questions you asked. I live in Florida, but have been messing around with mosaic's for a little while and I have great success with weld bond, it holds, and drys clear. I use it with ceramic and glass projects, I do bird houses that hang outside all year long, and I've never had a problem. I also coat some of my stuff with a clear polyurethane and that helps to keep the pieces clean, as grout is pourus and can suck up moisture which turns into mold from the dampness. I can't say I would use it on my bird houses, but I also do mosaic on terracotta flower vases and this is where I wouldn't want yucky looking grout. I know someone told you to use thinset, and maybe that's OK, but if your doing a very fine piece of glass and you want details in your work, I would think the thinset would swamp your glass when you set in into the thinset. you need space between your pieces when you grout, to hold it, and the thinset, if too high up between the glass pieces, would push the grout out, what you end up with is grout and thinset between all your little pieces of beautiful glass. I don't know, I'm curious to see some of your work and see how you made out. I'm not saying that what someone else told you is wrong, just offering my advice as to how I do it. Peace :) I'm sending a few pics of the different things I've finished, I have a table in progress, that is a butterfly, and done in glass, a birdhouse that's hanging outside in a tree, this pic shows a little snake living in it, and a stepping stone of a palm tree. Good Luck, and like I said I missed your post somehow, and would have offered advice when you needed it. Ciao, Jami
