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Some of the most beautiful wood we use is often porous at best and punky, verging on rotten, at worst, especially on our lid insets. Palm woods are variable – porous next to extremely hard as you can see in the side-grain Black Palm in these photos. Over the past few years we’ve come to rely on Cyanoacrylate glue, commonly know as “Super Glue”. We use a CA distributed by Starbond that is very good and much more affordable than those tiny bottles you find at the home building or woodworking stores. Click on the thumbnails as we describe our process. This method is commonly used on our domed lid insets but can be appplied to any porous or punky wood.

CA-Fill-ApplyingApplying CA - touchup

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