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The resin had an open time of several hours so I waited until it was getting viscous, filling took advantage of the surface tension to bulge up on the edges such that the resin was higher than the veneer surface.
All in all, a real pain!
FYI, alcohol (as in TransTint dyes, or add a little ethanol from your shellac ingredients) will lower the surface tension of most epoxy resins. A year and change ago, I did some experimenting while making one of my resin and cholla lamps, and I couldn’t quite get zero meniscus on the resin, but I could get it a lot lower by adding just a few drops of alcohol.
Never thought I’d have a good reason to use that, but it sounds like this might be a case where that would’ve been handy to know.
Beautiful little boxes, Splint! Nice work, as usual.
May you have the day you deserve!
