The fastest way for filling knots in wood with epoxy

#epoxy #shophacks

This is the fastest way I have found to fill medium to large knots in wood. Using traditional epoxy means you have to wait to fill knots because the epoxy can take hours to days to fully cure. Time is valuable if your a hobbyist or a production shop so the faster you can fill knots the better. I use a two step process with a base of oatey fix it stick which cures enough in 5- 6 minutes to then put tinted five minute epoxy on top to fill in the rest. After about 30 minutes from start to finish you can carry on working with your material. This is the fastest way I have found to fill knots, if you have a faster or more efficient way please share, I'd love to see it.

0:00 - Intro
0:08 - Tape up the holes
0:15 - Epoxy putty
0:55 - putty is hard
1:07 - 5 minute epoxy
1:22 - Clean up
1:40 - Done

[Hatchmade]

Check the description for links to the epoxy putty I use.

[marcuspoe]

:) the sound of a childs voice just make ya smile

[sevoak]

I'm definitely going to give that a try. Thanks for the tip.

[TWC]

Interesting. I didn’t even realize there was epoxy putty.

[benthere]

Did you just pigment your epoxy with a regular spray paint? Does that work well? Or did I just see it wrong?

[noahprice]

What happens if you don’t scrape out the knots? Or clean out the knot holes ?

[craigf]

be very careful with that. in my experience, a lot of those putty epoxy's have metal fragments in them, so make sure to underfill as demonstrated, otherwise, you could seriously damage some blades