I'm making small wood bookends from a live-edge slab. Some of them have voids and cracks that I'd like to fill with epoxy. My past experience tells me that it will be challenging to create a sufficiently watertight tape job around the sides and bottom of these pieces to prevent epoxy leak, and I am considering other options.
Has anyone tried using a shrink wrap or ziplock bag sealed around the wood piece with a heat gun before pouring epoxy? I could easily do multiple pours if the first doesn't do the job.
Any other ideas for flooding a small piece of wood with epoxy?
(Edit: I'd like to avoid placing the whole piece in an epoxy-filled container due to epoxy waste ($$$) and extra work of getting the hardened epoxy off)
I have no problem filling the cracks, but in the past I've come back in the morning to puddles of epoxy that slowly leaked out of the tiniest holes under my tape. The live edge is the problem, it's very difficult to fully seal it even with aluminum tape.
ive always just used tape on the bottoms and filled with no problem,on small cracks i use ca glue either clear or with some tint. maybe im not understanding what you want too.
If it is small cracks you want to fill, there are syringes made to fill with glue and feed into the cracks. Or maybe I don t understand the question.
- ibewjon
I have no problem filling the cracks, but in the past I ve come back in the morning to puddles of epoxy that slowly leaked out of the tiniest holes under my tape. The live edge is the problem, it s very difficult to fully seal it even with aluminum tape.
Maybe just my limited experience, but when I've done a flood coat I got small leaks around the live edge, even after stripping the bark, sanding, and taping the s*&^ out of it.
I am working with a cookie slab, if you can picture what I mean
I have in the past used MonoKote for model RC airplanes, and it works great. I used it mainly because i used to fly RC planes and always had spare monokote laying around. I would choose that over a melted ziploc.
Like Bodo said, I assume, Tyvek is what the epoxy pros use. Aluminum tape will work too. Plumbers putty can work for small holes.
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