Casting

[Crooked Stic]

Casting is the thread Subject 
And I appreciate all the other ideas that were brought up in ways I can go to fill the voids. I will be doing some test pieces to see what works for me.

[Kirkll]

Stic Post a picture of the maple with voids please.


This Osage had some cracks about 1/8" wide or so, I put some masking tape on the sides to keep in the epoxy
I mixed up some 2 ton epoxy and Acetone and worked it into the cracks



Knot hole on the other side.



Kirk this is real Turquoise chips (sand) , I reduced it down to fine sand.



spot drilled and filled the hole with super glue for a locator for the arrow.
I've used it for knot holes too

Cool 

I bought some granular "Mother of Pearl" that I used with thick super glue with mixed results... but.... I didn't crush it in into powder... I wanted the bigger flakes to reflect the light....

  If and when I try this again, I believe I'll use epoxy for the big flakes, and try a test with crushing it to finer material. The finer material would follow the relief cuts edges with more definition, but not sure how it would effect the look.....I was trying to avoid inlaying solid mother of pearl, and still get that translucent look.

That is a huge undertaking doing that kind of precise inlay work.

Kirk

[Mad Max]

  cool

[Crooked Stic]

If you want to see some inlay stuff look up Flatline bows on FB. That man has some skills right now doing one putting a feathering of wood  in the sight window. And he can almost shape the riser with his bandsaw.

[Kirkll]

  There are some skilled craftsmen out there. That's for sure... I'm not real fond of FB though... ya gotta sort though too much BS.