Tuesday, June 26, 2018

What You Need To Know About Stabilized Wood Blocks

By Richard Cook


The process of wood stabilization has made it possible to have strong and durable timber products that one can overly use. For instance, when preparing your knife handles, you need to consider having the timber chunk stabilized. The procedures can be overwhelming more so where skills and techniques are absented. However, with the necessitated skills and information, you will always have the products cheaply and simply acquired. Stabilized wood blocks are strong, durable, and capable for handling warping and dispensing it. Therefore, you will have to either prepare the block on your own or have the professional prepare them for you. The discussed are essentials to consider when stabilizing the wood block and the necessitated materials that you must purchase.

To begin with, your health and well about matters a lot. Therefore, acquire some goggles that will blend well with some masks. Hand gloves and protective clothes are necessitated as well. Ensure to use clothing that is fit when coloring. Resins are the fundamental material used for the process and depending on the anticipated color, determine the best dye to acquire. Seemingly, you need a vacuum chamber for stabilizing the blocks. Acquire an aluminum foil and air compressors. An oven is also necessitated for the whole process.

Wood is readily available, but there are multiple types and not all will serve your purposed need appropriately. Thus, ensure to identify a type that is durable and strong. Some of the chunks can have holes or even gaps. Ensure to polish or sand the smaller gaps and for the large holes, use superglue.

Stabilization process is efficient and effective where the stabilized block is dry. Moisture does not blend with resin and the process might retardate. Therefore, use a moisture gauge to determine the level of moisture. Normally, ten percent is the maximum level for the moisture in a block. You can use a toaster, a food dehydrator, or your oven to dry the wood. Where you heat up the blocks, make sure to have an airtight unit for the cooling process.

The resin is used for the whole process and it is mixed with the coloring acquired. Therefore, prepare your vacuum chamber. There are many compartment units in the market today and all are from different manufacturers and are operated differently. Thus, have a set of instructions availed for you to follow. Pour the resin and the dye into the vacuum and mix appropriately. Once the two blends together, endeavor to immerse the timber hunks. The chamber must be sealed and the best way to garner sealing tactics is through the instruction manual and guidelines.

Once you immerse the blocks and follow the stabilizing instructions, ensure to facilitate and establishing a curing stage. The curing stage involves wrapping the wet chunks of timber with the aluminum foil separately. Once they are wrapped accordingly, ensure to bake them. Baking should be done using a preheated oven at two hundred degrees. Normally, the resin will take between half an hour and some hours to dry up. The entire curing process takes between one to two days.

You can use the already cured timber chunks like beautifying your home furniture and decor through many ways. Finally, resin should always be used for a particular set of blocks. For instance, when you mix resin with a particular color, that resin should never be mixed with a clear one, as it will ruin the whole process.

Stabilizing process is fun and hassles free. Therefore, use the above information and tips to facilitate the procedure. The aftermath is rewarding and economical.




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