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   observer | Apr 05, 2002 06:25pm | #1

   Another chance to sing the praises of epoxy!

   Fill it with clear epoxy, just dab it on with a toothpick and sand it flush once cured. Once the finish goes on, it will be almost invisible.

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   ScottBraun | Apr 06, 2002 06:37am | #2

   ahhhh!!!! fill it with epoxy!?!?!?

   don't do that. surface the board. sometimes I'll go back with a smaller smoothing plane and carefully find the right direction to plane (often across in one way or another) the knot, fairing it into the whole of the surface.

   failing that, or if the absolute flat of the overall surface isn't as important, simply create a slow faired valley with a scraper, bringing the level down to the point where the tearout disappears. if you fair it out far enough, you can get away with quite a deep valley.

   otherwise, you'll have to bring the whole surface down to the level of the deepest tearout...

   good luck.

   sb

   "readjustthetruth"