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    Does resin impregnation prevent post milling warpage nearly completely?

    I am making a clamshell box out of 3/4-in hardwood. Both halves of the clamshell are pocketed almost all the way to the opposite face. The parts come out beautiful but when I go to put them together and they are not flat enough to create a good seam. Unfortunately the halves of both faces either have a ridge for the parts indexing together or a bunch of holes for inserted magnets. It's not as simple as sanding the two halves flat in the post processing.

    I've done a lot of reading and video watching on both resin and epoxy impregnating and was wondering if the easier of the two (resin) would both eliminate the moisture warping issues that plague woodworkers everywhere but also would relax the apparent internal stresses that could also be contributing to the warping.

    Another thought that crossed the mind regarding epoxy impregnating - could you draw a vacuum long enough to impregnate the wood but not long enough for the epoxy to cure? That way the wood blanks could be removed from the epoxy so that they do not become entombed.

    Appreciate the thoughts guys.

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    Re: Does resin impregnation prevent post milling warpage nearly completely?

    "maybe", but I don't think I would bother.

    I did little mahogany and ebony boxes similar to how you described as and xmas present. Ideally, you want to leave the top ledge for last, reclamp it to relieve stress (warp), then machine the top surface. This does somewhat depend on how you are fixturing in the first place. You also want to make sure the longest side of the box is in line with the grain... assuming its not square

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    Re: Does resin impregnation prevent post milling warpage nearly completely?

    Not possible. Epoxy is too thick
    If the pieces are small enough, you can stabilize them with acrylic. Search for Cactus Juice. It's cured with heat, so you have a lot of time for the resin to penetrate. Apparently, results can vary with wood species.
    Gerry

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    Re: Does resin impregnation prevent post milling warpage nearly completely?

    This was exactly my plan. I'm toying with the idea of bulk impregnating the blanks to reduce the operation count while having the benefit of it being stable in all humidity ranges and potentially stronger and a more dense feeling product(epoxy).

    I'm thinking that switching from vacuum hold-down to double sided tape might allow it enough give for the part to flex in place prior to the critical facing operation on the mating surfaces that way no second operation is required.

    Hey Ger21. Fellow UCCNC user here. i'm basing the epoxy impregnation idea on a video I saw. The boards are only 3/4" thick.



    https://wfs.swst.org/index.php/wfs/article/viewFile/1593/1593

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    Re: Does resin impregnation prevent post milling warpage nearly completely?

    Epoxy will only penetrate into the end grain, and only so far. In the video, the wood he's using is all end grain, and only about 1-1/2"-2" thick. So the epoxy only has to penetrate a maximum of about 1" into the end grain from each side. If you look at the video at about 6:05, it loks like there are parts that do not have any epoxy (light colored ares). And after carving, at the 7:40 mark, it looks like there's no epoxy on most of it.

    I don't think you can get the epoxy to penetrate more than about an inch into the wood, and only into the end grain.

    But the Cactus Juice should work.
    Gerry

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    http://www.g-forcecnc.com/jointcam.html

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