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A teaser of the next build.
A bit of cats paw oak.
I think I will be trying out Steve/Pete's Nescafe epoxy filler.
 

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That's lovely, Peter. Where did you get it?
The Nescafe/Epoxy works really well. Just make sure you use coffee powder rather than coffee granules beause they don't dissolve. DAMHIKT.
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Steve, I got it from Exotic Hardwoods in Staffordshire. Not cheap by any stretch, but perfect for my plan.
If I grind the granules with a pestle and mortar will they work or do I need to pinch some of the Missus' best filter coffee when she is out on Wednesday?
 
Personally, I wouldn't fill the 'oles to make the surface absolutely flat; leave 'as is' and just run some polish (Osmo PolyX works well) into them when the finish is applied - Rob
 
+1 for leaving it, MUCH nicer. All this resin filling thing will most likely fall out of favour anyway? Ill get my coat.
Interested to see the leg arrangement you adopt, I've had a sizeable slab of waney edged elm hanging around for a few years and when/if our extension is approved will finally have a place for a new coffee table!
I'll be considering a kind of 50's style round tapered leg.
 
I am not committed to the idea of epoxy filler. I am intrigued by the coffee epoxy approach, so will experiment with a spare bit. The finish will definitely be Osmo. I may do two or three samples of filled and not filled and see what works. The wood has held together well, I expected quite a bit of break out given what I am doing.
 
Ray it is not going to be a table the boards are only 1" thick.
 
The reason for filling is as practical as it is aesthetic. Sure, open pores can look wonderful, but the problem, especially for horizontal surfaces like tables, is that they get filled with muck. Dust, crumbs, etc. If it can get lodged in there, it wil get lodged in there.
The coffee colour is a good match because it's very dark brown rather than black. I think you would have difficulty in discerning which pores (or should that be paws? :) ) have been filled and which didn't need it.
(And yes, I did read Peter's bit about it not going to be a table).
 
I used coffee and epoxy on my pippy oak settees it works very well, you can sand, plane of scrape it down.
You and adjust the colour by adding more coffee, don’t use araldite, I did and it went off as I was mixing the coffee in the cheap pound shop stuff is ideal.

Pete
 
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