LumberJocks, can you get tough?
LumberJocks.com is proudly hosting the Gorilla Glue Challenge. This is a fun and creative event for all woodworkers, but be careful; this may be a sticky challenge!
Bond with your wood and the great outdoors while competing in this challenge to win some great Gorilla Glue products. Gorilla Glue is challenging you to build anything for enjoying the great outdoors. You must use two materials, one must be wood and any other material of your choice. You must also include any gorilla glue product in your entry. And there are 16 prize packages!
PRIZES
Gorilla Glue will have 16 random winners of some very great prizes.
- 1 Grand Prize will consist of $200 plus 1 of each Gorilla Glue’s products and a Gorilla Glue t-shirt.
- There will be 5 runner-up prizes; winners will receive 1 of each Gorilla Glue’s products and a Gorilla Glue t-shirt.
- As well as 10 third place prizes of a Gorilla t-shirt
RULES
- Your entry must be a creation for enjoying the great outdoors.
- One substrate must be wood
- Plus any other substrate of the participants choice such as metal, stone, brick, glass, rubber, etc.
- Any Gorilla product such as: Gorilla Glue, Gorilla Glue Precision Pen, Gorilla Super Glue, Gorilla Wood Glue, Gorilla Tape.
Get your Projects in by Monday September 1st and the winners will be announced on September 2nd. Are you up for the challenge?
HOW TO ENTER
- SUBMIT your challenge entry as a project and tag it with challenge06 (of course you may add any additional tags too):

Note that you don’t need to use ‘challenge06’ in the project title. - You can submit only one entry – give it your best shot.
- Describe your process in a project story and add at least one photo of the finished outdoor creation produced by you.
- Explain what materials you used and what Gorilla Glue product helped you in your outdoor creation.
- The entry deadline is September 1st.
- Winners will be announced online at LumberJocks.com on September 2nd.
Please note: Photos entered in this challenge will also be published on the Gorilla Glue site.
P.S. You can help promoting this one of a kind event by clicking on the BOOKMARK button in the top right corner. It allows you to easily submit to one of the popular bookmarking/sharing websites like Reddit, StumbleUpon, Digg or others.
-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka






















23 comments so far
Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 326 days ago
I don’t know Martin;
The last time I had a gorilla in my shop, Lumberjocks picnic ‘08, he made a mess of things! lol
Sounds like a fun event.
Lee
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Betsy
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posted 326 days ago
All these contests! I can’t wait to get back in the shop. Looking forward to the Fall contest. Good luck to all here enter this one. Should be interesting to see what you all come up with.
-- My digits count!
teenagewoodworker
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posted 326 days ago
i just might have to take the challenge! sound like a fun contest! now just think, what can i make!
PaBull
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posted 326 days ago
This one is going to be sticky…
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brianinpa
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posted 326 days ago
Very, very interesting! I feel like Winnie the Pooh: “Think, think, think…”
-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.
motthunter
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posted 326 days ago
Gorilla glue? What part of the gorilla do you get the glue from? Its hooves… Lets see what we can come up with.
-- making sawdust....
scottb
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posted 326 days ago
what a great contest… but what to do in three short weeks?
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
DAN
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posted 326 days ago
This is a cool idea for a contest. Fun to think about !
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
GaryK
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posted 326 days ago
This should be interesting. I wish I made things for the outdoors.
-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.
PurpLev
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posted 326 days ago
sounds like a cool challenge, can’t wait to see what people come up with… I already have an idea, now the only challenge would be if I can actually find the time to build it…
-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.
Napaman
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posted 326 days ago
congrats on such a great idea…will rack my brain…but little time with school starting on the 18th…6 days…
SO GOOD LUCK everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- Matt, Napa, CA...sanity...has arrived...JUNE-JULY-AUGUST...
Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 325 days ago
WOW!
Now, I’m going to see if I can get my brain unglued,
& try to think of something to stick together.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
Grumpy
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posted 325 days ago
Could find myself in a sticky situation here. LOL
-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python
Karson
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posted 325 days ago
Lee I hope you weren’t talking about me as being the Gorilla.
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corey cyr
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posted 320 days ago
I just may have to join this contest.
Good luck to you all.
DAN
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posted 320 days ago
this is a cool contest.
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
SteveBirdman
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posted 319 days ago
Too bad this contest involves using crappy glue
-- Steve Birdman Jr. - Flying high in any weather to give to those around me
DAN
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posted 318 days ago
I love the glue. Especially if they sponser this website and prizes.
Has anyone ever tried their duck tape ? Killer …..
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
Grumpy
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posted 318 days ago
No gorillas down here Karson, except in the zoo.
-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python
DAN
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posted 318 days ago
DON’T CLICK THIS ONE
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
daltxguy
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posted 317 days ago
Will have to pass on this one – Gorilla glue, if you can find it, has to be sold by the ounce here, it’s so precious.
At the last New Zealand Lumberjocks picnic, Moshe and I discussed about there being some sort of tariffs on imported glue here (seems 5%) + GST (12.5%) + currency exchange rate + profit margins. I have found a 2 oz bottle of gorilla poly glue for $5.45 . While I could afford it, it does not become a glue of choice at that price for any significant project. Epoxy can be had for less than that.
Sorry Gorilla.
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com
moshel
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posted 316 days ago
actually, its not too bad. its the only US glue that has active local distributor (maybe even manufacturer). 16 Oz bottle sells for 18 NZD, if memory serves. its over twice the price of PVA, but not too bad. they also sell here something strange that is unique to NZ, called PVA aliphatic. has no finger print on the net. looks like titebond imitation. i bought a bottle and will check.
-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...
scottb
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posted 306 days ago
This was a fun challenge. I’d used Gorilla Glue a lot in the past (and have some invisible joints in the kitchen because of it – good boast of a very green amateur (at the time), but have been pretty much just using wood glues of late (titebond 2 and 3).
The newer formulation of GG works really well, and foam up significantly less (at least this is true of the white one I tried). Glad to have a reason to try them. (and I’m sure they’re glad to know they have some new customers too)
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/