Hi folks,
All like while ago I bought a carve top that has inclusions/ bark holes in the side I want to use as the glue side. I knew it was imperfect when I bought it.
What I'm wondering is it I should I use something to fill the holes before I get to the point of gluing it to the body? I was thinking stabilise with thin super glue and then just fill with wood filler?
I was planning on binding the body too.
I've marked the offending area in the attached photos. The pencil line in A is roughly the edge of the body and shows the intended underside/glue side of the top.
B is a close up of the area in photo A. C is it from the side after I'd taken some of the excess off the sides and D shows the area from the intended carve side.
Cheers!
Dan
Can't you turn it over, make that side the top then all that will get carved out anyway?
If not binding is about 6mm and it looks like you should hide most if not all of it, could also skim the back down a little to make sure. As for filling I'm a fan of superglue and sawdust.
But yeh, turn it over and carve that out would be my thing unless the other side looks amazingly good?
Dan Hawkes Topic starter
14/08/2025 12:45 pm
@nsj thanks Neil, that is the obvious answer I'd stupidly not considered...
The other side is a bit nicer, but this will be my first carve top, so this suggestion makes the best sense.