Promised picture of test piece

[catsittingstill]

You can see the smudges where I didn't get all the white glue off (most noticeable in the middle of the darkest strip (on the left). The three lines with tiny writing on the right hand edge are the white-glue-plus-sawdust trials. The sawdusty smudges at upper left (at the left end of the topmost putty line, for instance) are sawdust-plus-epoxy, which I mixed up when I had the epoxy for the whole surface mixed up. (I have to mix 3 ounces at a time because of measuring accuracy issues, so I don't want to be making several batches if I don't have to.)

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

It took a while to decipher that, mmmm. BTW, have you tried syringes for mixing the epoxy?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

No...

The epoxy is in deep bottles; hard to get a syringe into. I would need to discard the syringes afterward, which might mean spending as much per trial as I already do on the extra epoxy. It might be a more accurate way to measure out the epoxy components, but overall I don't know that it is worth it.

But I'll think on it.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Have you thought of making plugs that are obviously deliberately of a contrasting color? (are the holes that need plugging in a pattern that wouldn't make such a thing offensive to look at?)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I did toy with this idea (you can see the butternut plug in the white pine and the white pine plug in the butternut at the left edge of the piece), but eventually decided 1) I didn't manage to get the screwholes at the ends to land on a smooth enough curve to make this quite pleasing and 2) it would make the ends very visually busy to have all these dots on them. So I decided to go for unobtrusive instead.

And since I drilled out and plugged the holes already, I can't really change my mind now :-)