Agreed. The epoxy will be less brittle than grout, and probably wood filler as well. Plus with epoxy, you can use pigments to make the letters whatever color you like.
Examples:
When I saw the Maslow online, my first thought was, I need to make maps! I’m glad the process has finally come together and I’ve now completed a few! I currently have only cut Austin and a small town that I grew up in, in Illinois. They are 28" tall and 24" wide. I epoxy filled the cut areas then run it through my drum sander to flatten it out. So far I have cut them into cherry and walnut. Since I was doing roads, it is very Z-axis heavy as it raises and lowers at the start/end of each ro…
Ok, here is the final version using resin!
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The “resin in pockets” method of coloring is quite nice, although getting the shade of red correct requires trial and error because I was using “cure to white” resin, so the red dye would interact with the whiteness of the resin, but only AFTER it cured. [I couldn’t find white dye, so I had to buy a “cure to white” resin to get the white color…]
Not a Maslow project, but I did something similar last summer.
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The sky blue was a mix of blue (Black Diamond brand) and white (Castin’ Craft) pigment in a clear epoxy base (East Coast Resin) all bought from Jeff Bezos.
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