Epoxy inlays

[Big Beech]

Thanks, just what I was looking for!

[gobbypunk]

Hi I got my resin and glow in the dark powder from a company called Elichem , made john nepia on hear a coffee table , Eli Chem are very helpfull on the phone , some turners I know use super glue mixed with powderd metal etc that seems to work well , good luck post some pics if you do go that way

Cheers Mark

[Paul in the woods]

Another old thread: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/chainsaw-carving-forum/27219-defence-woodturners.html

[Big Beech]

Just catching up on this thread again as iam now at the point with my burr Oak table top that before i go any further I need to fill in a crack or two.

I have found this, 1.5kg Low Viscosity Ultra-Clear Epoxy Resin [uV Resistant] | eBay is that suitable? And perhaps being blonde but was mix by weight not volume?how should I mix this?

[muttley9050]

I'll put a link up for you later when I'm near my laptop.

[shendy]

Just catching up on this thread again as iam now at the point with my burr Oak table top that before i go any further I need to fill in a crack or two.

I have found this, 1.5kg Low Viscosity Ultra-Clear Epoxy Resin [uV Resistant] | eBay is that suitable? And perhaps being blonde but was mix by weight not volume?how should I mix this?

 

 

I got some of the same to fill in some cracks in a bit of beech.

Get 2 cups and weigh it out on some kitchen scales. That's how I done it anyway. A little goes a long way. I mixed up far too much first time and now have a loverly cast of a plastic cup!!!🙈

[Chris Scott]

I do quite alot of this and I use a polyurethane casting resin. But the peices that I do are very small and fit into a pressure pot while they cure so that any air bubbles in the resin and compressed out.

 

I use various dyes and mica powders to get different effects into the resin, Pearl ex powders are great.

 

A good friend also does inlaying like this of small coloured logo's into his work, he rout's out the logo then fills it with coloured (dyed) 2 part epoxy.

[Lazurus]

I do quite alot of this and I use a polyurethane casting resin. But the peices that I do are very small and fit into a pressure pot while they cure so that any air bubbles in the resin and compressed out.

 

I use various dyes and mica powders to get different effects into the resin, Pearl ex powders are great.

 

A good friend also does inlaying like this of small coloured logo's into his work, he rout's out the logo then fills it with coloured (dyed) 2 part epoxy.

 

Is there much cleaning up afterwards as I think this would be great on routed house signs, would a quick plane off leave a smooth surface on the larger area of a sign.

 

S.

[shendy]

I'm looking at the pressure pots and vacuume bits currently for stabilising and casting blanks and bits.

[adamelder]

West Systems two part resin is fantastic stuff for filling. Dead easy to use. It takes any sort of filler (metal, glass, dyes etc). Doesn't need a vacuum chamber to get rid of bubbles.

 

The pics show a sink I carved about a year ago and have been using daily since. You can see the fissures here that are filled with the resin.

 

I've been using the resin mixed with bronze powder a bit recently. It sands and polishes down to a pretty genuine solid metal finish.

 

Can't recommend it enough.