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What is the preferred method for filling burls? Shallow? "Deep"? Coloring for fill material.
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I use epoxy and Brownells powdered dyes atch the color. Always go a bit light in color.
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Jim, epoxy is fine and mix in some fine sawdust from the stock. Bobby
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Epoxy works fine with a little dye. Saw dust is optional but if the burl hole is large it looks better with saw dust. To get good penetration I use heat to thin the epoxy when applied. Makes it very watery. Thick epoxy is very hard to get down into the bottom of the burl defect but water thin almost runs down to the bottom.
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Ground horse hooves was the preferred method a century ago. Don't see why it wouldn't work today and I would guess that DT would agree.
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epoxy with black filler coloring. Never had any luck matching color.
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Seems a good place for shellac stick.
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Ground horse hooves was the preferred method a "century" ago. You rekon some hoof from a half century old John Deere would work. Even us hillbillies mechanized "Before the War" 
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Miller, you can probably get some hoof clippings at any riding stable. We trim our horses too often to bother much with nippers, but folks that shoot their horses will generate a lot of hoof material. A quick call to any farrier will probably be just as quick.
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Depending on the size of the void, I'll use a plug cutter to patch large voids cutting plugs from the offcuts of the blank, shellac sticks are great and epoxy with a little fine dust as well. The fine dust is best applied to the top of the epoxy, it tend to tone down the luster of the epoxy when sanded and finish.
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