How to fill knots in wood before painting

I picked up this beautiful piece of walnut recently. I just couldn't not buy it. I don't know what I'm gonna use it for yet. Some kind of a tabletop.

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But, one of the problems it has is that bark is just a little bit loose.

And I want to make sure that that bark stays in place because that's such a nice feature of it. The other thing is, it's got some knot holes. It's got some cracks and I want to take care of those.

I want, I don't want to just leave them as cracks.

How to fill knots in wood with epoxy

So we're gonna fix this.

We're gonna take care of this with epoxy, more specifically, this is what's called casting resin. If you go to a hardware store, if you go to a home center, and you get two part epoxy in the syringe, you squeeze it out, you mix it.

It's really thick compared to this stuff. You'll see that in just a second. With this, benefit is I can pour it over the top of this and it's really gonna flow down into that void.

And it's gonna do a much better job on this than trying to pack the regular two part epoxy in there.

So, casting resin, it's available online from a variety

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