Have you been to one of our floral design shows? If you have, you might have noticed the designers using what looks like a frying pan. When they insert a stem into styrofoam or want to glue something into place in an arrangement, they dip the item or stem into the pan and place it into the arrangement. What are they doing?

To start, the pan is no ordinary pan. It is an electrically powered pan that heats a product called pan glue. After the pan has heated up and melted the glue, it stays in a liquid state until the pan is turned off. If you will be using a lot of glue, it offers the advantage of being able to use both hands unlike a glue gun. Also with a glue gun, you have to pull the trigger to get usable glue. If you need precise placement of a small amount of glue to an item that cannot be dipped into the pan, you will still need to have a glue gun to do that. The glue pan can be pretty versatile but cannot replace all the functions of a good glue gun. So, do not throw away your glue gun if you get a glue pan.

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