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- A lot of my crochet work is amigurumi,

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which is the Japanese term for
a crocheted or knitted toy,

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a stuffed toy.

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And many of these toys have
eyes and have super cute faces.

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For the most part, you
can use safety eyes,

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but for some really small
items or flat items,

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the safety backing becomes a problem.

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So I had to think of a way to adhere eyes

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to my fiber work using glue.

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Here are some flat friends

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that I actually made for a storyboard

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while I was giving a keynote speech.

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And you can see there's no room back here

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to hold the backing of a safety eye.

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Also for these tiny
little edamame soybeans,

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you have very small amounts of
room in here for the backing,

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so I had to think of a good
glue for these guys as well.

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And my favorite glue for attaching
these eyes is super glue.

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This is the Loctite super
glue, it's gel control,

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so it's not very runny.

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And since it's a gel control,

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it's easier for you to control your eyes

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as you're adhering them to your fiber.

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When you have a safety eye,

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it's going to come with this backing

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and you can use a wire cutter

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or a button shanker to
snap that right off,

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we won't need it.

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I might wanna do this into
a Ziploc bag or a box,

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because the backings will
go flying into the air.

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We'll see where it goes.

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Oh.

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So you can see that
comes off really easily

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and now you have a flat back to work with.

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I have a little edamame
guy who has one eyeball

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and we're gonna give
him his second eyeball.

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Just dab maybe two dots carefully.

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You don't wanna use too
much with super glue.

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You don't wanna glue
your fingers together,

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which is not the end of the world,

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but also not very handy

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if you're trying to do a lot of work.

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And superglue really needs to be smushed

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and hold it for like a minute.

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A minute doesn't seem like a long time,

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but when you're sitting
here holding an eyeball,

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some time can pass, but be patient.

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If you don't hold it and
you don't make good contact,

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the eyeball will not stick to your fiber.

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Another note of caution,

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I work a lot with acrylics

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and you cannot use super
glue with natural fibers

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like cotton or wool.

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It will literally melt cotton or wool.

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But I have an alternative glue for you

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if you prefer to work in natural fibers.

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So give this a good hold.

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Let's pretend one or
two minutes have passed

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and he's ready to go.

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For the most part they say that
super glue is not washable.

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I actually tried to run
this egg through the wash

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and he seemed to survive,

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but I don't know how many
washes that would survive.

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So if you're using this super glue method

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it's mostly for toys, hair clips,

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not for items for small
children, obviously,

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because they can probably
pick those off and eat them.

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But otherwise, if you're
making toys for grownups

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and hair clips for grownups,

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it's a really great
way to adhere your eyes

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and also plastic noses.

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If you're working with natural fibers

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a good alternative is
Guetermann Textil Glue.

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It used to look like this.

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It used to come in a yellow
tube and everyone loved it.

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It's a favorite among purse makers,

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because it adheres
fabric to metal very well

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and is washable.

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However, they've updated
to this red packaging

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and a lot of people don't like it as much,

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but I've tried a bunch of alternatives

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and even though it's
not quite as fast drying

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as the original,

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I still think it's a really great glue.

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Let's use that on this.

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He looks a little weird right now.

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This is a ham sandwich
that has a puppy dog face.

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You can see there's the ham
and the cheese and the bread.

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He's all ready to go,
he just needs his eyes.

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I'm gonna use my wire cutters
again to break off the backs.

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You can arrange your pieces

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before you put your glue on them.

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Just to give you an idea
of where they're gonna go.

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I would definitely have
a paper towel handy.

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It tends to keep oozing out of the tube,

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so you need to watch out for that,

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especially if it's a new tube.

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It's already starting to
come out a little bit.

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So I'd wipe it off,

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so you don't have an excess of glue,

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and then dab a little bit
on the back like this,

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smush it onto your fiber.

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And this actually grabs more
quickly than super glue,

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so you could actually move
on to your second eye.

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Wipe that off on my paper
towel, dab, dab, dab.

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Place it on.

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You can kind of smush
those on with your fingers

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to make sure there's good contact,

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but it really dries in like 30 seconds.

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And that's washable.

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The only reason why I wouldn't
defer to the Guetermann

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as much as super glue is because
it can be harder to find,

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it's actually manufactured in Germany,

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and not many people sell it in the US,

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so I have to go and buy it
either on Etsy or Amazon

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and the shipping can take awhile.

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So it feels like a very special glue.

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It's awesome, it has so many great uses,

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but super glue is also a cheap

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and more easily accessible option.

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To show you the different
adhesions of various glues

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with plastic and fiber

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I made a fun little swatch for you

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that we can do a pick test with.

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I'm gonna save my favorites for
the last on this bottom row.

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This is OK to Wash-It.

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You can see it just really
didn't get a good grab at all.

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Here's Fabri-Tac,

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which is actually not bad.

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I have sort of mixed feels
about Fabri-Tac and plastic.

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This had a pretty good adhesion this time,

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but I find it's not always reliable.

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You should certainly play
with it if you get the chance.

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This is the Ultimate, which
is our white tacky glue.

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It's not bad, it's a little peely.

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The Fabri-Tac did a little
bit better with the pick test.

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So this is my work horse, the super glue.

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You can see that's on there pretty well.

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The downside also with superglue

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is I wouldn't cover a
lot of territory with it.

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I find that with a
larger piece of plastic,

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it just doesn't have good grab,

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but for these tiny eyeballs
it works really well.

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This is the Guetermann glue and
that's on there really well.

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I love this glue.

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And just for fun, I threw in hot glue,

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which is surprisingly not bad.

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I would never use hot glue
with a plastic eyeball,

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but this Surebonder glue
is maybe doing the trick.

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I also wanted to show you
these plastic cherries.

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They're my new favorite embellishment.

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And it's a slightly
different kind of plastic

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than these plastic eyeballs,
because it's flexible,

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so glue tends to peel away from them

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and I had a really hard
time finding a glue

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that would actually adhere fairly well.

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I'm still on this search,
but I do have a favorite.

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So let's do a pick test
on this little cake.

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I have four different glues.

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Let's start with Fabri-Tac,

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which is not bad,

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but you can see it
peels pretty easily away

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and the cherry is clean,

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so the glue didn't stick
to the cherry at all.

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Here's Gem-Tac.

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It's not bad, some fiber
is stuck to the cherry,

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but it doesn't take much
pressure to peel it off.

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Here's Ultimate or white glue.

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This is actually not bad,

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it's taking some effort
for me to pick it away.

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It still peels up a little bit.

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And this is what I've been
using for my art pieces,

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the Guetermann.

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It's pretty strong.

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Like if you tried really
hard you could pick this off,

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but, oh, okay, I picked off the stem.

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This is on there pretty securely.

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Let's use the Guetermann

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to glue this cherry onto this cupcake.

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It's a very similar technique
to gluing on the eyeball.

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And this is to start oozing
out basically uncontrollably,

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so I'm gonna dab that
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and dab this directly
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It's kind of slimy,

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which is why I use a dabbing motion

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to help leave product
on the embellishment.

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And then with a bigger
decoration with this,

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I use a twisting motion

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to make sure it's really
grabbing onto a lot of fiber.

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And again, this grab is very quick

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and you don't have to hold
onto it for the whole time.

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You can see when it starts to grab.

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Leave it to dry for four to six hours

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and then you're good to go.