All prices in Canadian Dollars. The Canada Post Strike has ended and mail service should eventually get back to normal once the backlog is cleared. We may continue to ship via UPS at no extra charge for a few weeks just to make sure that orders arrive on time.

A bit of progress on drawer inlay this week

This week I epoxied all the inlay assemblies into the recesses cut into the drawer front.  In addition to putting a generous layer of epoxy into the recesses, I also pooled it on top of all the joints to fill any gaps.

It was a bit of work to sand the inlays all flush with the drawer face, and after doing so, there were quite a few voids as you can see in these pictures.  Tomorrow I will hopefully have time to fill all the small voids with black epoxy and will also use a rotary tool to cut tiny grooves for antennae on the bees, which will also be filled with black epoxy.  In preparation for this, I put on a couple of thin coats of blonde shellac to minimize the epoxy absorption on the wood around the voids to be filled.

 


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