In the mid 1990's I was hearing a lot of rumors about glue failures
with certain types and problems with cold creep.  I decided to try
an experiment.

On 26 September 1996 I ripped 1/4-inch strips from a clear 1- by
10-inch white pine board.  I ran them all through a thickness sander
so that one side was sanded and they were all the same thickness of
3/16 inch.  I cut 12 of them 22 inches long and 12 of them 24 inches
long.  I had ripped them long enough so that when I cut them to this
length I cut off any snipe that the thickness sander might have left.

I then glued together one short one to one long one, sanded side to
sanded side, so that 1 inch of the long one stuck out past each end
of the short one so that I had an assembly 3/8 inch by a nominal 1 inch
(actually 3/4 inch) by 24 inches.  I made two of each with each of
the six different glues: Weldwood Plastic resin, Excell polyurethane,
West System epoxy, hot hide glue that had some age on it and had been
reheated several times, Elmers white glue, and Tightbond II.

On October 13, 1996 I marked the edges of each assembly about every
1 to 2 inches so I could see if the joint would creep end to end.
I then put each assembly in a frame I had made for this purpose.  The
frame held the ends of the longer piece of each assembly and each
assembly was bent over a 1 inch thick block of wood at its mid-point
so that it formed an arch.  One of each glue was with the long piece
concave and one with it convex.

This has been sitting in my shop next to a filing cabinet ever since.
Every once in a while I take it out and look at it.  As of 7 March 2007
none of the glue joints have come apart or moved in any way (no cold
creep).

My conclusion of all this:  With these six glues it doesn't matter
which one you use under normal circumstances.  They are all good and
it is more a matter of which you are most comfortable with.

John Dewey
Penfield, Illinois