When I came back and looked at my sides this morning after the epoxy has cured, I find it did sink into a lot of the curl and everything looks more even. I think a bit of sanding and another coat will patch things up. But now I have another question: What do you do after you pore fill with epoxy? Do you just sand the epoxy to a smooth finish and apply your finish over the epoxy? Or do you sand it back to raw wood with just the pores filled? I thought that with a pore filler, you removed all the filler except in the pores before proceeding with finishing, but the idea of sanding hard epoxy off the relatively soft and thin veneer makes me nervous. I would suspect that the more open pore woods you use would be even worse than the maple, so you must have developed a technique. What is it?Clay Schaeffer wrote:Hi Mark,
I generally work with more open grained woods when I laminate sides. My usual method is to first sand the areas of bleed through to have a uniformly smooth surface, but not so much as to remove wood (veneer). I then recoat the pieces with epoxy and squeegee it into the pores. You can use old credit cards, plastic lids cut to shape, or even the small rubber edged squeegees the big box store sells. Anything to push it around and into the pores. I then squeegee off any excess epoxy.
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