How to fill cracks and voids with epoxy resin
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2018
- I wanted to make a quick video for you guys using the things that I've learned along the way about filling cracks, voids and knots with Epoxy resin. It's a great way to stabilize the wood and create a nice flat surface. It's also a great design feature in my opinion to incorperate into your woodworking. Enjoy!
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Thank you
ALWAYS good to find someone who does quick , straight to the point, no frills tips. espesially with clear audio and video. great job. using your tips!!
My thoughts to. This guy was easy to listen to and rather enjoyable
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Thank you! Finally a demonstration with minimal tools and clear instructions
Love the CA glue fill tip! Thanks!
Straight to the point. You're very easy to watch. Thankyou
In glue and dust we put our trust!...
Thanks for the vid really interested in the epoxy resin fills and finishes. They really can be superb!
Exactly the info I was looking for! Thankyou!!
Thanks for the tips. I'm about to use this for the first time so it was awesome that you pointed out some of the pitfalls.
Awesome! Good luck.
Great video - Clear, concise, perfect amount of detail, great audio and video. And you included the tips and tricks. Thanks! I just glued up a big walnut top and I'm off try epoxy fill for the first time!
Thank you so much!
How did it go? Just want to know if I can trust this video or not
Well explained! Great video, Brandon!
+Penalty Box Woodshop thanks man. Much appreciated!
Thank you, you really helped with the tip on how to address the tiny (?) air holes.
Absolutely. Glad it helped and thanks for watching!
the clear looks pretty good, kinda just takes on the colour around it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! this is exactly what I needed for my projects !
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for posting man! Good tips in this video
KnottyDogWoodshop thanks for watching!
Very helpful, thank you.
I’ve seen our cabinet shops do a lot of scratch repairs on aircraft cabinet finish with CA glue too. It’s a great trick.
It has so many uses!
Love it! I’ll doing this today!
Awesome!
This is great. Just what I was looking for!
Glad it helped! Check out my other videos for more tips. 👍
Awesome tips and great video! Thank you!
Nice job and very clear explanation 👍🏻. the tip about CA glue and accelerator is really clever. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Great video. Really helpful tips!
Gabe Buckner thanks! Glad it helped out!
Thanks for the video buddy thinking about starting epoxy on live edge slabs thanks too you and everyone else that just puts out videos on anything and everything it helps eliminate some failures before you start things thanks again to you and all that make educational videos. TN Back woods Boy
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Great tip, thank you. Looking forward to trying this out. Made a big mess of mine the other day
Haha try, try again. I've made my fair share of mistakes as well.
Love the quick tip videos!
Thanks! I'll try to do some more in the future.
Great video. Definite help. Thank you.
Thanks!
Great video, thanks for sharing!
DIYDadWorkshop thank you! Glad it's helping out!
Great tutorial thanks!
The tutorial is really helpful!
Thank you! Starting my project today.
Great! Good luck!
Great tip about the pin holes, I will give it a go and let you know if that sorts it, thanks.
Awesome. I'm sure it will work out great. Thanks for watching!
Good tip on using the CA glue for the pin holes. Great option rather than mixing up more epoxy.
It absolutely saves a ton of time!
Can you use CA glue for small cracks and gaps?
Great video. Love tips.
Annette Hauler thank you for watching!
Thanks for the information 👍
Good info Sir!
Thanks for the tip of pouring in stages, didnt do this on my first pour and had a big ol' blue mess on my porch lol.
Haha me too
Thanks made it easy to get started
What grid sandpaper did you use to do the initial sanding, then what grits did you use to get to the final sanding. Thanks, great video.
I wondered the same thing should it be 220+?
Like the tips. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks you! Very helpful
great video thanks
Thank you sir, you are excellent!!!
Thank you!
Great tutorial!
Thank you!
Thanks for the quick tip! Keep it up ;)
Thank you!
Great Video, Bravo!
Thank you!
That was a terrific presentation. I work on much smaller scale (musical instruments), but much of this applies.
What do you use for the air gun? I've been using compressed air cans, but they do get expensive after a bit.
Solid!
I'm refinishing an outdoor picnic table that's sentimental to my wife so want to get it just right. Will this method of susing epoxy hold up to the elements outside? Also, any suggestions on types of stains finishes for the table? I have Thompsons water sealer on hand as well. Thanks, the tutorial was great
Very helpful. What grit do you use when sanding?
Thanks for this video! I'm wondering if this would work to fix a crack in my pull-out cutting board. It's no fun to slice tomatoes or watermelon and have the juice go right through the cutting board and onto the floor!
Great video! Thanks for the tip on filling the voids from one edge and letting it fill the bottom to remove air pockets. I was wondering why I was getting air trapped.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching! :)
Good info
Nice!
thank you very much for this
Thank you for watching.
Any tips on how to do something similar to a table that is already stained? I recently purchased a new dining set and the table has the "rustic" look with nail holes and cracks where the wood pieces go together. I'd like to add something to get more life out of the table and not have things gather in the holes without having to sand it down and restaining it!
excellent
This is cool. I want to get a hold of some nice knotty, natural wood so I can try this. Can you stain over that stuff?
Yea you can but you will see it.
I've got a table that has gaps between boards due to the lumber shrinking. You can see through the table in places. Think this would work?
Ok first I love what you did and I thank you for sharing..
Can you tell me what sand paper you used and when I'm finished can I just polyurethane it?
I like these tips for the bigger cracks and voids. I'm wondering what you do with hairline cracks and also the edge of my cypress slab is pealing/flaking as I sand. Any advice? Thank you.
I use ca glue and activator for stuff like that.
Great video, thanks for the info! It seems the pinholes are in darker areas so it may not matter, but do the spots with CA glue show through the finish? I thought I remember reading somewhere that CA doesn’t accept stain the same way epoxy does
+Geoff that could be true. I'm my experience stain doesn't do much to epoxy either way.
Great video. I'm planning on using table top resin to cover a bar top. Can I also use the table top resin with pigment to fill knot holes before I cover the top? Not sure if I need different type resin for knot holes and cracks. Thanks!
Yes it works for that is just thicker. Heat it up a little with a heat gun so it will flow better. 👍
Really helpful and susinct
Thank you!
Very nice, straight to the point video. I have an old table with two spaces between the planks, about 5 mm wide and 2000 mm long. They go completely through. Can I fill these up with resin in the same way as you do?
You could try. Not sure what the outcome would be though. The boards are probably anchored on the ends I'm guessing? If you do that then the wood may split because it has to expand and contract with the humidity in the room.
Love your videos thanks for the tips. What’s your opinion on tints/dyes in epoxy?
I use them all the time. 👍
Awesome
Nice one.
Mark Holmberg thanks man!
Thank you
I am a beginner at this, wanting to do my first project on walnut slab with some worm holes. Could u add a pigment to this, or should I just stick with clear? Eventually it is going to be a cutting board.
@Walkers Woodworks what grit did you sand the first coat with?
Can you add any finish over the top of the wood an epoxy? Like a spray lacquer.
Yes
Great video and good tips! Thanks! I have a kitchen island made of reclaimed wood similar to what you have in the video. Whoever made it (already in the house when I bought it) used clear epoxy to fill in holes as you did, but missed quite a few of them or didn't fill them in completely. Any thoughts on what I could do now to repair those? Will new epoxy bond to the cured epoxy? I don't think there is any varnish on the wood, I think it's just a heavy wood wax.
Epoxy will bond with epoxy if you scuff it up. As far as it bonding with any sort of finish I'm not sure. You can contact MAS epoxies with that question and they can help you out.
@@WalkersWoodworks Thanks!
Hi would this work for a table that already had a finish on it ? I purchased a wooden table that had notches in it didn’t realize how annoying they would be
Would I still be able to sand it and keep the existing finish ?
Thanks for this great video! What kind of tape are you using to seal the bottom? Thanks!
just blue painters tape works great
Great video. Not sure if this has been asked in the comments yet, but I have 6 boards that I am glutting together to make a tabletop. I've machined up the timber so its flat and square; it has a number of cracks and holes that I want to fill with resin - would you recommend filling these before or after I glue the boards together?
I do all my epoxy after I do the glue up.
how strong is it? could you drill and hang in such a spot securely?
It may have been asked but would I have issues with black epoxy staining the wood? All my bigger voids I coat in clear and then fill with black but I have some fine cracks that I obviously can't clear coat first. Thanks!
Can you stain on top of epoxy without any issue? Or should the stain be done first?
Great videos. Quick question. I see you pour epoxy on top and know some DIY guys pour on bottom What’s best practice for no bubbles even though we’d use heat to clear them?
I've never had luck pouring from the bottom. Not sure why they do that.
I have found that the clear epoxy will stain the wood around the cracks and it’s almost impossible to sand those stains out. What am I doing wrong here. Several projects I’ve had to plane down which made them thinner than I wanted them to be
Thanks for any help with this
Can you use tung oil over the epoxy? I’ve got s tongue and Groove countertop I built for my camper. I have finished in tung oil and need to fill in the knots and gaps.
Yes you can.
What grit are you using to take down the epoxy? Thank you for the video.
I usually use like 100 or 120. Thanks for watching!
Do you have to use a specific type of tape to cover the bottom side?
I usually use packing tape or good masking tape.
Can this be used if wood is vertical?
Will a polyurethane top coat work over top of that?
I need to match this shelf to the rest so I have to pick a filler that will work best with the existing finish. No stain, polyurethane only.
And thanks.
Ya poly works fine over it.
Sawdust works as accelerator as well. The reaction realeases a very noticeable amount of heat if you let it happen on your fingers.
What tape are you using to cover the holes ?
Hi, I am wondering how many grit of the sand paper are you using to sanding down the expoxy?
I start at like 60 or 80 and work up from there
Nice tutorial. On the underside, could you use regular wood putty or Durham's Water Putty to seal the holes? It is way cheaper and faster than epoxy, and the underside will never be seen. No need for taping over the holes as you have to when using epoxy.
Dan Limbach I'm not sure. That would be something to try out. I'm sure it would work!
Yes you can if the putty is fully cured. Not dry but cured. Just make sure the putty is not visible from the top or you will see the color of it. If you buy in gallon sizes epoxy is cheap. US composites has great kits at a much lower price than West. 635 thin with 3:1 is great for wood..... but at the box stores those little kits are super expensive.
Not sure if this has been answered or not but can you stain over it after? Im pealing the veneer off a table and it’s so hard to get off that I’ve gouged out a piece of the under wood, I’d like to try the epoxy but I also wanna stain the table.
Ya but it doesn't really effect the epoxy.
So I have a 4in thick table I've made from the cross section of a tree, which has now cracked clear through from top to bottom, and is almost two inches wide at the edge. What's the best way to handle that? With a straight deep pour? What are the best materials for sealing the bottom to keep it from leaking out if I do that?
Well a couple things to ask first is... How long was the wood drying after it was milled till you made the table? For a slab to dry if properly stickered and stacked it would take about one year per inch to dry enough to make furniture with it without it further moving, cracking, etc... If it is dry... 20% or less moisture content then it should be about done moving. You can go ahead and stabilize it with epoxy or a bow tie. 👍
I'm currently finishing a live edges kitchen table. There are however some lines /grooves going straight across the table which I've been told are sticker marks from the kiln. How can I fix this ? Do I have to sand whole table down to depth of groove or can I fill will epoxy or filler and then stain . Thank you in advance
+BarryFromEastenders I would suggest sanding it all down flat.
Do you think this method could be used in brick walls to fill deep holes so that they can be re-drilled?
Hmmm... I would think you would need to use mortar or something like thg for brick.
I like the video and your suggestions, however I have another dilemma that I was wondering about. I am a woodturner, and I turn various bowls and other things on the lathe. Occasionally, I have cracks or holes and I want to fill them. I see from your video that it is a 2 or 3 step process, where you make a base, then add more epoxy, until you make it smooth. That will work on a round piece too. But what i was thinking of, was adding some colored powder to the epoxy, perhaps to make various colors in the wood piece itself, where the cracks are. Can that be done?
My latest video gives some more epoxy tips. Maybe that will help. 🤷♂️
If you don’t sand the bumps down will the final flood coat hide those, or will they show through? I’m doing a table and did a seal coat over cracks. It is wavy and uneven. I sanded it somewhat to give the final coat something to adhere to, but I didn’t sand it flat to the table top, if this makes sense.
It needs to be even before you do the final coat.
Hey so I got these beams with lacquer on them still, and they have cracks. Plan eventually is to make them the same thickness. But I was thinking, can I already start filling up the cracks, and afterwards remove the lacquer and get them the same thickness? It seemed the most logical approach but I'm not sure whether it'll work out
Honestly I'm not sure if the epoxy will stick to the finish. I'd probably try to get the lacquer out of the cracks first.
Do you have this same video but with blue epoxy?
Great video! What kind of tape do you use in the bottom?
Usually just masking tape works.
I’m building a small coffee table that has a big void on the bottom(about 3 -4 inches in diameter and about 1-1.5 inches deep) will this epoxy work well for that if so will it still be clear after filling a hole like that and if not any ideas what I should use that will not leave an ugly spot on the slab
For something like that I would use a slower setting eoxy such at the MAS Deep Pour, Polymeres Technologies Chill Ice 2 or Ecopoxy liquid plastic. It should be crystal clear when its done but you need to make sure its sealed really well because those epoxies are water thin.
What grit sandpaper would you recommend
Can I use a water based poly over a project with epoxy filled holes?
Yes. Should be fine.