Drstrangefart
Member
So, I had a blank where one end was a burl cap, so I decided to fill it with resin. Went well until the other end shattered on the lathe. Unstable stuff. I did what I thought I was supposed to do, flooded the hole after drilling with thin CA, let it set up, added more thin CA, re-drilled it to clean out the excess, glue made it pretty much all the way on the tube. I grabbed the thick CA, made a collar just below the damage, made a cone on it out of tape, and filled THAT with more resin. Worked out well. Then it wouldn't separate from the bushing on that end. Did a bit of damage removing it from the bushing. Then the cap tried 3 or 4 times to turn sideways during assembly, causing some more damage. Had I not spent so much effort getting this one to assembly, I would have just removed the furniture and hit the barrel with a hammer. Shoulda just stayed upstairs today. The other half of the burl also shattered on the lathe.