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   IanDG | Mar 11, 2003 05:21pm | #1

   Go to a store that specialises in flooring and you'll be able to buy cork tile adhesive.
   I have laid it using parquet adhesive, which is basically PVA with a filler added to make it gap-filling. Anything that works on timber will work on cork.

   IanDG

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   rslatm | Mar 11, 2003 05:33pm | #2

   I recommend you glue it to a homosote board. 1/8" cork to luan is not going to be a very successful bulletin board. The homosote itself is an excellent bulletin board and the cork gives it a traditional look. Contact cement will work.  Most bulletin boards are made this way with even thinner layers of cork.

   
   

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   Edited 3/11/2003 11:40:08 AM ET by Rick at Arch. Timber and Millwork

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   jackplane | Mar 11, 2003 05:47pm | #3

   You don't need anything special; contact cement will work fine.

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   CheekyMonkey | Mar 11, 2003 05:58pm | #4

   I was going to comment that 1/8" cork doesn't seem thick enough for a bulletin board, and that you consider finding thicker cork (I've seen self-adhesive cork squares about 3/8" thick) but the suggestion of using homosote as an underlayment is a good alternative.

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   Jamie_Buxton | Mar 11, 2003 07:08pm | #5

   To add to the other comments about a lauan backer....  The trouble with plywood for the backer is that the pushpins will attempt to go all the way through the 1/8" cork, and run into the impenetrable plywood.   Homosote works for the backer.  If you can only buy huge sheets of homosote, another backer that works well is foamcore board.   Foamcore is a thin sheet of styrofoam, surfaced with thin cardboard.  You can buy it in art supply stores.

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   RoyinMD | Mar 11, 2003 07:59pm | #6

   Jeff,

   I built two bulliten boards for my kids rooms. I used some Home Depot brand thin rolled cork, 1/16" maybe, I'm sure it was thinner than 1/8". I used Elmer's glue thinned with water on 1/2" drywall. Sealed the edges of the drywall with full strength elmers. Worked good, cheap too, makes for a good firm board that kids can abuse.

   To keep a WW tone to this reply and the thread, one frame was in walnut and the other was white oak.

   Enjoy, Roy

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   RW | Mar 11, 2003 10:00pm | #7

   Contact adhesive, vote #2. Like the homosote idea though. We used to make them by the hundreds for the local U, they wanted luaun backing and 1/4" cork. That's what they got. Suspect they got replace every 3 years or so, but DK if that's the grade of materials or the age of the abusers!

   " Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you." Hermann Goering to the Prussian police, 1933.

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   hammersparks | Mar 12, 2003 05:57pm | #8

   Thanks for the advice.  I purchased Homosote board and general purpose adhesive - like PL 200.  The guy in the lumber yard that never gets off the lift - you know him - he perpetually drives in circles - well he got off the lift to help me dig the Homosote boards out.  He said that no one had purchased Homosote in the three years he worked there.  No kidding - it had a quarter inch of fine dust on it.  Back to work.  Again  - thanks!  I'll post a picture when this reception desk is installed.

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   rslatm | Mar 12, 2003 06:14pm | #9

   A better option is to wrap fabric around the homosote and staple it to the back.  Gives a lot more design options as far as color when cork is limited to brown and fabric  can be changed over time to match a new color scheme.