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Last fall, my SIL had some trees that needed to come down, and she saved some logs for me. They were bug-riddled and rotten, so I stuck them in my fancy solar kiln for a while. 2/🧵 #woodworking

Logs stacked in a corner of a messy workshop

A box made of foam insulation, held together with duck tape, with plexiglass panels on top. It’s in the sun, which made the stuff in it hot.

jul 17, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0

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A few weeks ago, I cut them down into nice Euclidean shapes and used packing tape to seal all but one side. I mixed up a bunch of epoxy with mica flakes in it for color, and set about filling the voids left by rot and bugs. The epoxy also bridges cracks and stabilizes rotten areas. 3/🧵 #woodworking

A block of wood covered in tape on all sides but one. There is colored epoxy visible on top and there is an irregular hole visible.

jul 17, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view

There ended up being some amazing colors and grain in this rotten piece of maple that otherwise would have been pitched for being too hard to split and too rotten to burn. 4/4 #woodworking

A turned wooden box with a shallow lid. There are black streaks (spalting) from fungal rot and dark blue epoxy fill.

The lid is off the bowl showcasing the different colors and grain, including blue streaks of epoxy.

Another shot with the lid on. The spelling is prominent and merges with the grain on the side, showing that it’s cut from a single piece.

jul 17, 2025, 3:36 am • 2 0 • view