Acrobat
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Hi
I have made a few bathroom seats lately, quite simple stuff, textured surfaces using the festool 850 planer with the funky blade. Man that thing makes chips fly. Then sanded and stained and waxed.
Anyway after much sanding and smoothing down it looked fab, but I have left the items for a while and notice long cracks in the top of one of them. Not really deep just visually unappealing (so my missus says anyway).
It's Macrocarpa timber, (sold here in NZ for garden walkway sleepers) which I thought I'd try. I assume its slowly drying and cracking. Wasn't completely dry when I got it I think. I doubt whether it'll ever be a major fault that would weaken it substantially if at all, but I'd like to fix it with some sort of clear filler. Any recommendations or advice is welcome, indeed needed! Here's a pic of a previous one I did which is fine. I'll take a pic of the new one showing the crack later today if I can. It's a rather thick slab so am not worried of losing any strength, just would like to give it a better look since the wife reckons she wouldn't buy one that showed open cracks and thinks others wouldn't either. (I actually like 'em! as I think it gives it more character but what do I know).
So why filler/s do you use or should I use on something like these?
thanks
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I have made a few bathroom seats lately, quite simple stuff, textured surfaces using the festool 850 planer with the funky blade. Man that thing makes chips fly. Then sanded and stained and waxed.
Anyway after much sanding and smoothing down it looked fab, but I have left the items for a while and notice long cracks in the top of one of them. Not really deep just visually unappealing (so my missus says anyway).
It's Macrocarpa timber, (sold here in NZ for garden walkway sleepers) which I thought I'd try. I assume its slowly drying and cracking. Wasn't completely dry when I got it I think. I doubt whether it'll ever be a major fault that would weaken it substantially if at all, but I'd like to fix it with some sort of clear filler. Any recommendations or advice is welcome, indeed needed! Here's a pic of a previous one I did which is fine. I'll take a pic of the new one showing the crack later today if I can. It's a rather thick slab so am not worried of losing any strength, just would like to give it a better look since the wife reckons she wouldn't buy one that showed open cracks and thinks others wouldn't either. (I actually like 'em! as I think it gives it more character but what do I know).
So why filler/s do you use or should I use on something like these?
thanks
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