Raised on the Erie Lackawanna Mainline- Supt. of the Black River Transfer & Terminal R.R.
White glue dries clear. As I recall, (and somebody please correct me if I'm wrong,) carpenters' glue dries a more milky yellow color.
So, while it doesn't matter much for benchwork or banjos, you want to use white glue for ballasting and doing scenery.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Consumer reports had a relative tie between titebond III and the top end elmers.. and gave the nod to elmer's on price with the titebond III being very slightly more highly rated. Thats from memory.. but I saw it relatively recently.
I use the "regular" titebond. It seems plenty strong enough and is water cleanup, or at least somewhat water cleanup, where some of the other wood glues, including titebond III, for exterior use are more of a pain although they are waterproof when dry. My regular stuff I think is only "water resistant". I also prefer the round shape of the larger titebond bottles to elmers more flat shape.
I think there are some differences between some of the wood glues and white glue not only on how it bonds and water-proofness (a word?) but also in how they take wood stains.
Regards,
Chris
I too have used both in the woodshop.
As for the "yellow and the white": I use the yellow for the more permanent types of projects such as adhering track, gluing trestle and bridge work and so on. The white is for ballasting and scenery.
This reasoning is two fold; as the white does seem to dry clearer and the yellow is more water / moisture resistant. This way when I screw up the scenery....I can remove this layer with wet water without taking up the track and cork too.