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enlightenment for the filler
By:Paul G. Jacobson
Date: 5/8/2001, 2:48 am
In Response To: WOW this filler is dark!!!!!!!!! :O (sage)

: What do you use to control the color of filler? By the way the green of the
: resin dosen't show.

Good, good, good. Otherwise you would need to find some slightly purple- or magenta-toned pigment to neutralize hte tint.

:I have a lot of Atlantic white cedar I can use for the
: darker woods, but what do I use for the cypress and the atlantic white ?

Head to the kitchen for some plain white flour. Be sure you get your own container for the flour you use for thickening and whitening your filler. Be careful that this flour never gets back into the kitchen. It would be awful if it was somehow contaminated with sawdust or sanding dust from glass fibers or epoxy resin, and then got back to where it might be eaten.

PGJ

Messages In This Thread

WOW this filler is dark!!!!!!!!! :O
sage -- 5/8/2001, 2:33 am
color swatches
mike allen ---> -- 5/8/2001, 3:12 pm
Cabosol works too
Jay Babina -- 5/8/2001, 2:50 pm
Talc in another option
Brian Nystrom -- 5/8/2001, 12:15 pm
enlightenment for the filler
Paul G. Jacobson -- 5/8/2001, 2:48 am
I will do another test tonight *NM*
sage -- 5/8/2001, 9:42 am
Spanish Cedar sap?
Jason Koldewijn -- 5/8/2001, 8:48 pm
Re: Spanish Cedar sap?
sage -- 5/9/2001, 1:50 am
Re: Spanish Cedar sap?
Jason Koldewijn -- 5/9/2001, 7:15 am
Re: Spanish Cedar sap?
sage -- 5/13/2001, 8:44 pm
Re: Spanish Cedar sap?
Jason Koldewijn -- 5/13/2001, 10:31 pm
Re: Spanish Cedar sap?
sage -- 5/11/2001, 1:46 am
100 degrees
sage -- 5/9/2001, 10:16 am