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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:13 pm 
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I would like to do some inlay. I am way too allergic to epoxy to use that. I was using some polyester resin such as for a paper weight and tried gluing some sheets of veneer together. The resin soaked completely into the wood and left nothing to glue the two pieces of wood together. I am sure there were good materials for inlay glue and gap filler before the modern resins. Any advice?


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:27 pm 
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There are several different thicknesses of black cyanoacrylate (super glue) available that can be used for inlay.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 3:44 pm 
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CA glue and ebony dust works good.



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:38 pm 
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Barry Daniels wrote:
CA glue and ebony dust works good.

+1. Thin CA for me.



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:02 am 
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CA and dust here too.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:57 am 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsZuwAXcfUU
I use a few different filling techniques but here is a video
to show how I do it.

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