Filling knots ?

[wizer]

I planed up some oak yesterday to find that it is quite rustic. There are a few pieces with open knots which I can't avoid using. I'm sure that I have seen somewhere that you can fill these holes with epoxy ? Is that right? Any particular brand?

http://www.axminster.co.uk/sessionID/JT ... -23719.htm

 

[woodbloke]

I was just reading Robert Ingham's book over brekky this morning and...wait for it, he has to use filler as well :shock: Instead of epoxy though he uses superglue as it's clearer I suppose (most or all of the epoxies have a yellowish sort of tinge) which he mixes with some fine sawdust of the particular wood he's working with...it would also set much quicker as well. If you could find an epoxy that was clear then it would work I think - Rob

 

[lurker]

I was just reading Robert Ingham's book over brekky this morning
Rob

AND, I thought I was a sad git :roll: :lol:

 

[woodbloke]

I was just reading Robert Ingham's book over brekky this morning
Rob

AND, I thought I was a sad git :roll: :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol: - Rob

 

[andy king]

Hi Wizer,

you could also try this: http://www.knottec.com/
It's sold as a package complete with gun, but it might be worth a call to them to see if the sticks will work in a standard glue gun.

hope this helps.

Andy

 

[Evergreen]

If you could find an epoxy that was clear then it would work I think - Rob

LOCTITE Super Epoxy sets clear in about 10 minutes, although it takes 48 to achieve maximum bond strength. It's good stuff and I use it as ordinary wood glue if there's lots of end grain involved or it's external work.

 

[woodbloke]

If you could find an epoxy that was clear then it would work I think - Rob

LOCTITE Super Epoxy sets clear in about 10 minutes, although it takes 48 to achieve maximum bond strength. It's good stuff and I use it as ordinary wood glue if there's lots of end grain involved or it's external work.

Reading back over the thread, some of the fast setting epoxies do set clear, it's the Araldite slow setting stuff (the proper epoxy :wink: ) that's yellowish in colour - Rob

 

[mailee]

This thread has prompted me to post this pic of a knot that fell out when machining one of the panel doors. Can you tell which knot is real and which is not.

Of the knot that fell out I used some epoxy filler and after sanding it I painted it a matching colour with wood stain.
After a little scuffing up I then applied the stain to the panel and this is the result. Anyone see the false one?....................................

 

[Rob_H]

I was just reading Robert Ingham's book over brekky this morning
Rob

AND, I thought I was a sad git :roll: :lol:

No, think I might beat you there - went to France for a week on holiday last week and had Mrs H standing alongside huffing as I clambered over a wood pile looking for oak, at a reclamation yard outside Bayeux - "we haven't come away so you can fill the car with wood again!!"

 

[wizer]

Nope, I can beat that. When I took my missus to Venice, to propose, I dragged her round a Gondolier workshop! :lol:

 

[Rob_H]

Now that's style!!!

 

[wizer]

Thanks guys. So many options! I think I might try the CA glue, seeing as I have some.

 

[Wanlock Dod]

what about the wax filler stuff?

 

[Oryxdesign]

You can add fillers to epoxy resin, they have a range of applications from just being fillers easilly sanded to being strong glues. It is worth looking at the West Epoxy website

 

[woodbloke]

I was just reading Robert Ingham's book over brekky this morning
Rob

AND, I thought I was a sad git :roll: :lol:

No, think I might beat you there - went to France for a week on holiday last week and had Mrs H standing alongside huffing as I clambered over a wood pile looking for oak, at a reclamation yard outside Bayeux - "we haven't come away so you can fill the car with wood again!!"

Having just come back from the South of France, I wanted to find a couple of really nice lumps of olive wood to chuck in the back of the Landy, but I couldn't see anywhere that was cutting the stuff up - Rob

 

[Richard Findley]

Hi Wizer,

That stuff you show in the picture is great stuff. Not only does it give you fantastic wood to metal joints, it makes a very good filler. You can mix in saw dust (I have a couple of jars of dust from the bandsaw of most commonly used woods) or you could use brass/copper powder in it to make a feature.

The wax filler stick work well too. Great for filling small holes and knots, not sure if it's too big a hole though.

HTH,

Richard

 

[Evergreen]

This thread has prompted me to post this pic of a knot that fell out when machining one of the panel doors. Can you tell which knot is real and which is not.

Of the knot that fell out I used some epoxy filler and after sanding it I painted it a matching colour with wood stain.
After a little scuffing up I then applied the stain to the panel and this is the result. Anyone see the false one?....................................

Mailee

Well, I'll play Spot the Knot, even if nobody else will.

I reckon it's the little one, second from the top, in the middle.

Do I get a prize?

 

[Oryxdesign]

Well I'll join in as well then I recon it's the one just above the centre rail.

 

[Chris Knight]

Well I'll join in as well then I recon it's the one just above the centre rail.

No, that's where Alan put in a screw to stop the panel rattling..

 

[OPJ]

I reckon it's the one smack-bang in the middle of the panel!