I was at a place today where the guy mills large slabs for sale and sometimes makes tables himself
There was a slab that had a probably 3/4 inch wide crack in it that he had filled in with epoxy.
On the end of the slab I could see what he had used underneath to hold the epoxy in but didn't recognize what it was until he explained.
He takes regular tite bond and coats on either side of the crack then uses strips of bed sheets like tape then coats that with glue and lets the whole thing dry before he flips the slab back over and fills with epoxy, Says he's never had any epoxy leak out since he's started doing it that way. I didn't see why that wouldn't work for a bowl blank as well. I forgot to ask if he just leaves it underneath or if it comes loose with a chisel or something.
Have I been living under a rock and this is a common practice but I just don't know of it? I usually use packing tape and then chase the leaks that invariably form.
There was a slab that had a probably 3/4 inch wide crack in it that he had filled in with epoxy.
On the end of the slab I could see what he had used underneath to hold the epoxy in but didn't recognize what it was until he explained.
He takes regular tite bond and coats on either side of the crack then uses strips of bed sheets like tape then coats that with glue and lets the whole thing dry before he flips the slab back over and fills with epoxy, Says he's never had any epoxy leak out since he's started doing it that way. I didn't see why that wouldn't work for a bowl blank as well. I forgot to ask if he just leaves it underneath or if it comes loose with a chisel or something.
Have I been living under a rock and this is a common practice but I just don't know of it? I usually use packing tape and then chase the leaks that invariably form.
