The fastest way for filling knots in wood with epoxy

#epoxy #shophacks
This is the fastest way I have found to fill medium to large knots in wood. Using traditional epoxy means you have to wait to fill knots because the epoxy can take hours to days to fully cure. Time is valuable if your a hobbyist or a production shop so the faster you can fill knots the better. I use a two step process with a base of oatey fix it stick which cures enough in 5- 6 minutes to then put tinted five minute epoxy on top to fill in the rest. After about 30 minutes from start to finish you can carry on working with your material. This is the fastest way I have found to fill knots, if you have a faster or more efficient way please share, I'd love to see it.
This is the Epoxy Stick I use amzn.to/44GOw9l (USA viewers) amzn.to/3PW1aNM (Canadian viewers)
0:00 - Intro
0:08 - Tape up the holes
0:15 - Epoxy putty
0:55 - putty is hard
1:07 - 5 minute epoxy
1:22 - Clean up
1:40 - Done

[@Hatchmade]

Check the description for links to the epoxy putty I use.

[@marcuspoe9353]

:) the sound of a childs voice just make ya smile

[@Hatchmade]

I agree.

[@sevoak]

I'm definitely going to give that a try. Thanks for the tip.

[@Hatchmade]

No problem. Thanks for watching and make sure you don’t run the oatey stuff through your tools it’s absolutely murder on blades.

[@TWC6724]

Interesting. I didn’t even realize there was epoxy putty.

[@Hatchmade]

Yeah. It’s great stuff. Sets up super fast and very hard.

[@TWC6724]

@@Hatchmade I’ll have to try this out. I was about to try out some coffee grounds to mostly fill a crack and then put epoxy in it but I may try this instead. Maybe I’ll experiment with both. 🤔

[@Hatchmade]

@@TWC6724 I’d be interested to see how it turns out.

[@TWC6724]

@@Hatchmade I’ll let you know. I have some epoxy on order. I do a lot of inlaying natural cracks with small turquoise pieces but have been contemplating ideas to fill the bottom of the cracks and such with something else to save on the turquoise more towards the surface. Can you really push this putty down with a screwdriver tip or something if need be to really jam it down lower?

[@Hatchmade]

@@TWC6724 before it hardens it’s like stiff play dough or modeling clay. You could easily push it down into cracks. Then it hardens to a usable state in about 20 minutes

[@benthere8406]

Did you just pigment your epoxy with a regular spray paint? Does that work well? Or did I just see it wrong?

[@Hatchmade]

That is what I used. I’ve used a bunch of different pigments and they all seem to work pretty well. At least with 5 minutes epoxy.

[@benthere8406]

@@Hatchmade awesome thanks for the reply

[@noahprice1250]

What happens if you don’t scrape out the knots? Or clean out the knot holes ?

[@Hatchmade]

Depends on how much of the knot is missing. This one the knot fell out and was gone. If most of it is there I just use 5 minute epoxy and leave a little depression and then do a second coat over it later. The only problem with 5 minute epoxy is it goes off so fast you get air bubbles if the layer is too thick.

[@noahprice1250]

@@Hatchmade would it be bad if you didn’t scrape out the knot holes? Or if you didn’t put epoxy in them, I guess would it be bad if you stained and sealed the wood without scraping/cleaning the knots and using epoxy? I currently am doing a project and my wood has a good bit of knots which I don’t mind but would it mess anything up if I don’t clean em out or epoxy them.

[@Hatchmade]

@@noahprice1250 it depends on the look you’re going for I suppose. I’d clean any loose junk out but for the most part knots shouldn’t affect your project as long as your not using them in any structural points and you don’t mind stuff getting stuck in them in the future.

[@craigf6277]

be very careful with that. in my experience, a lot of those putty epoxy's have metal fragments in them, so make sure to underfill as demonstrated, otherwise, you could seriously damage some blades

[@Hatchmade]

That's a good point that I should have mentioned. Once that stuff is hard it plays absolute havoc with blades. I'm not sure if there's any metal in the oatey stuff but it does get extremely hard.