 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So I just wanted to do a very quick video. I get asked a lot about the Kalal glue and if it is the same as the Beacon 3-in-1 glue. So I just thought I'd just show you them here and I'll do a quick little test from what I can see it is. They're both solvent-based, they both feel, look the same, they smell the same so I am going to, and from what I've used I've been using them in a mixture of tutorials so you would have seen this appear in videos because I just thought I would rather use it for a few weeks and then do this video so I can you know be as truthful as I can and I'm pretty confident to say that yes I believe they're both the same. I've looked at the ingredients and again I'm not really up with that kind of thing but it all looks pretty similar. The question that I get asked is are they work the same and I believe they do. So the reason I'm doing this is because I think the Beacon 3-in-1 is easier for people to get in the States. Again I could be completely wrong. You can get this in the States. I know some people have said that they get it really easily but others have said that they can't so that's why they've been asking then about the Beacon 3-in-1. These are used widely within like model making in places like that or those kind of crafts but Crafters Companion have raved about this for years and it's the one that they sell off of their website. You can get it anywhere as well. This one I actually got from Crafts Mathic through Amazon. I've brought from them direct and I didn't realise that they obviously have a shop through Amazon as well so they sent me or they didn't send me I brought this one myself but it came through them. So I've got this one because what I've been doing is I usually this is the first time I brought the big one. A few of you sent me the links to the large one because I didn't know it even existed. This is a thousand mil so it works out cheaper to buy this and this one only cost me 15.99. So again it's much much cheaper because I think on creating craft and possibly Crafters Companion I think creating craft do four for something like 13.99 but then you've got your postage and packaging and then you've got creating craft do three for 9.99 I think but you get a thousand mil. This is the winner. This is the best value for money but what I've got here is an old tonic studios tacky glue holder and I just love the fine nozzle on this. You would see this feature in all of my tutorials but the one thing that the beacon does have is it does have a nice applicator so it's easy you can just use that straight away because it's quite thin. The smaller that you would have seen me use of the Kalao has that twisty it's just like this but in red so it's exactly the same it's clear bottle and it has all this in red but I do I don't I don't ever use this bit it's meant to be to smooth it out I think I never use it and I do find that this traps a lot of air I'm not getting that with this and I don't really get it with this either so yeah they're just a few kind of things that I've got a couple of observations ready but I thought I would just to count this one into here so I cleaned this out made sure you know got rid of all the white tacky glue there was only a little bit left in the bottom but I'm finding that it's lasting me a lot longer because obviously less is coming through the finer nozzle so again you know you're stretching your glue even further so it's just like you know you're art glitter glues and the BB the Dawn Bibi what we're doing putting on there the Dawn Bibi fine precision tip glue that I've used as well they're both very good glues along with the Cosmic Shimmer and there's the Nouveau one as well but so for me these are the glues that well it's gonna be the clouds that's just I think because you can get this one now this is all I'm ever gonna use it's just brilliant stuff it really is you do have to take caution with it so I wouldn't really you it's not the kind of glue you want to use with children because it is solvent-based it's highly flammable it does have an odour to it as well so you do have to take those factors into account but for paper crafting to get that completely flat surface you know so you've got no warping nothing because this is waterproof so it's got no water in it at all it's just brilliant stuff so I just thought I'd do a quick little test I've got my standard 300 gsm cardstock I use this for my card blanks I use it for box-making all that kind of stuff I've just got some paper here this is what I use this is from the paper addicts paper pad so I'm gonna do one side with the Kalau and it just dries so quick but I use hardly anything now I'm gonna stick this one on this side here and it just the thing I love about this is the stiffness that when it dries it becomes so stiff so if you are using a lighter weight cardstock once you add your mats and layers together it becomes so solid it feels like a 300 plus gsm cardstock so it is really good if you do have those you know lighter cardstocks and I know lots of you have started using this I've been receiving I get comments and messages sent of people saying it's just amazing stuff so I'm now going to use the beacon on this side and you can see it's it's exactly the same and like I said it smells the same so it's just a probably a slightly different formula but they're both yeah both the same so I'm just gonna stick them down I'm just gonna leave them a few minutes just so you can see and yeah that's it really okay so that's just starting to stiffen now and it's nice and strong you can see there if I line that up it's just it's exactly as it is it's perfectly flat there's not one ounce of warping you can't you can't physically get that to warp because of the ingredients in this and the fact that there's no water I don't know why it's three in one I don't know what the three is so it just says here advanced craft glue it's got acid-free waterproof and then it just says it's crystal clear trans oh yeah and then that's all oh instant grab fast dry glue that's what I like it is that instant grab so yeah I hope that's answered a few questions don't really know what I say on it because it is what it is it's yeah this is an all-purpose glue the kalau I'll share links below I should try and find the links to this one and I think I may have got the last one on Amazon through that company but I'm sure they'll be there well I know there will be more because this is widely available so I will yeah I'll try and look out for those links but yeah so either or they're both really good if this one was in a big bottle like this and it was good value for money I get the three in one as well so yeah I'm not they are just equally as good but yeah so that's it so hope that's answered like I said any questions and yeah thank you for watching see you soon bye