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1. 
   UncleDunc | Jan 17, 2003 10:24pm | #1

   Epoxy and sanding dust.

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   Lilshaver | Jan 18, 2003 01:07am | #2

   epoxy without the sanding dust

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   Dale | Jan 18, 2003 01:47am | #3

   epoxy with blacken dust mixed in

   
   

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   Edited 1/17/2003 5:48:14 PM ET by Dale

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   johnhardy | Jan 18, 2003 02:01am | #4

   Besides epoxy (the other posts ...) you could simply leave the knothole as is. I took a UC Riverside class last Saturday which was a day in Sam Maloof's shop. This included a tour of the place and one of his chairs (walnut) has a knot between the size of a dime and a quarter almost in the front middle of the back piece. It was cleaned out and finished like the rest of the chair. I think it looked great. However, if this were for the top of a table I'm not sure I'd leave it unfilled.

   John

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   alias | Jan 18, 2003 05:34am | #5

   another vote for epoxy w/ graphite

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   Splintie | Jan 18, 2003 06:33am | #6

   You want "smooth", which epoxy will give you, but it will likely look quite a lot darker than the surrounding walnut. I've had success filling special knots for box tops with Bondo mixed stiff with extra hardener than usual, colored with glop from the bottom of a can of oil-based stain of your choosing. I swear it looks a lot more normal, and it's quite a lot cheaper. Well, it is if you keep gallons of the stuff as i do...i use it for exterior patching of wood, brick, concrete--even cars, LOL! It cures in no time at all, ready to sand without gumminess. Some epoxies i've used have shrunk a bit over time (i mean like a year), while the Bondo stays flush with the surface.

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   Jfrostjr | Jan 18, 2003 05:03pm | #7

   Thanks for all the great suggestions. The Bomdo sounds like it is worth try on a sample. I've used epoxy in other cases and haven't been totally satisfies.

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   Dale | Jan 18, 2003 07:20pm | #8

   I would love to see a pic of some bondo "patches" in wood.  I'd post a pic of blacken epoxy but never can be successful at getting a pic to be posted on this board.  Would be glad to trade pic's over email.   

   My only complaint about epoxy is after several months and the wood has moved as in possibly shrunk I can feel the epoxy at a different level than the rest of the wood.  I would expect bondo to do the same.  But, if bondo cures in minutes vs. an hour for 5 minute epoxy I'd like to know more.......

   Have a great week-end,

   Dale