{"id":163,"date":"2005-06-06T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T04:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:02","slug":"filling-a-burl-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/filling-a-burl-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling a burl hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was working with a walnut burl piece, about 11&#8243;x15&#8243;x0.355&#8243;, give or take 0.0015&#8243;.  Unfortunately, it had a big old hole in it.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a few ways to deal with such a thing.  In the past, I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/archives\/000004the_liquid_walnut_pastry_bag.html\">liquid wood<\/a>.  This time, I decided to use epoxy&#8211;no colorant, just clear.<br \/>\nI discovered an interesting tradeoff, which of course I have to share with you.  It turns out that if you have a hole that goes all the way through the board, exoxy (even the thick stuff) will drain right through to the other side.  No surprise.  The solution? Put a piece of tape on the back side.<br \/>\nBut not so fast!  It turns out that if you do that, there&#8217;s no where for the air trapped in the hole to go, and you wind up with a big bubble at the bottom of the hole.<br \/>\nThe solution?  Cover the bottom with tape, but make a pinhole.  When epoxy starts to drip out, cover the pinhole with a second piece of tape.<br \/>\nOh, and watch out for the epoxy fumes.  They&#8217;re relatively odorless, but quite toxic.  Another good reason to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/archives\/000003darth_vaders_dust_mask.html\">Darth Vader&#8217;s dust mask<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was working with a walnut burl piece, about 11&#8243;x15&#8243;x0.355&#8243;, give or take 0.0015&#8243;.  Unfortunately, it had a big old hole in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}