The epoxy set overnight. I scraped the epoxy down to the surface with a hand planer.
I sanded the areas with 110 grit. The area on the right is sanded. The one on the left is not.
It takes a bit of elbow grease to get through the epoxy, but eventually it comes up.
The other side of the board needed some areas filled as well. You can see here I just use a scrap stir stick to drip the epoxy in the cracks. This does a pretty good job, but you have to make sure it doesn’t dribble anywhere.
Like any other epoxy job, the bubbles need to be popped. I use heat gun. Some woodworkers use a torch, but I don’t have one and always figured it’d get too hot. This gun has two blow settings and works great for me.
BTW, the cutting board above is one that I did some time ago, but was waiting for a time that I had some epoxy mixed up to fill in a couple small gap. It was a a bunch of scraps that I had at the time: purple heart, padauk, maple, oak, and some baltic birch plywood. It made for a pretty wild cutting board.
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