When vinyl doesn t stick to wood the problem is usually with the wood.
Glue to stick vinyl to wood.
The choice for glue depends on the back of the vinyl the part where the glue will go.
Your permanent vinyl should well adhere to wood that s treated with a base coat so long as your project is kept inside.
You ll just need to sand the plastic with high grit sandpaper to help the glue stick to it better apply the glue to the plastic and wood and press the two surfaces together.
A standard acrylic paint works great.
As the old porgy and bess song says it ain t necessarily so.
After a couple of hours the super glue should be set.
Painting your wood is a great way to seal it and help the vinyl really stick.
Gorilla glue sells a couple of different kinds of super glue one standard version and another gel version that would work well to bond wood.
Many people call asking why their vinyl won t stick to the wood and assume there s a defect with the vinyl.
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Since there are endless combinations of things that could be adhered together there needs to be some sort of guide.
To adhere plastic to wood try using heavy duty super glue like loctite or gorilla glue.
It will be more difficult for vinyl to stick to rough wood so sand your surface before beginning.
For example we needed to glue a piece of wood to metal that was going to hold over 100 pounds.
Vinyl is made by mixing two chemicals chlorine and ethylene and comes in many forms from semi liquid to rigid thin to thick and flexible to breakable.
If you want to try a topcoat i would let the vinyl adhesive cure for 24 48 hours before adding a topcoat so the adhesives don t mix and cause the vinyl to peel.
But there are ways to make it work and things to avoid.
Regardless of the form gluing vinyl to wood requires specific types of glue.