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Early Access Video: Fixing the Cracked Slab

🕑 Added 2022-09-02 17:49:53 +0000 UTC

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Floppy Jaloppy

Thank you rex

Helge

Fascinating stuff, Rex. Really like the "real-worldness" of this.

Scott Alderfer

I have no experience with using epoxy on slabs. So this video makes me want to possibly dip my toe in the water (certainly not in the epoxy) and fill in some cracks on a rough sawn butternut slab I have. Thanks!

A1BASE

You got ahead of me! Yup, I'm going to need a follow up video in a couple of years! ;) I'm not convinced dowels will hold that amount of tension and my experience with epoxy says that it's not adding any strength in that application - maybe even the opposite.. I think it might require a mechanical 'ikea-type' solution.

A1BASE

And here's the downside to the hobby.... That dining set has held up for years. There's very little wrong with it. But as a woodworker I HATE everything about it, only because I can see how I would have done it better / differently. Would it have made any difference to the actual usability of the item? I doubt it.... That straight-from-sawmill finish on the legs is killing me. X) To be clear - this says volumes about me, and not about the produce or buyer.

Shane Thomas

Another great video Rex, and I agree it is the best woodworking forum on the net, though I haven't posted in a little while. Life takes over sometimes 😉

Paul Mouradian

Great job Rex vulnerability is a noble strength

Frans van Ballegooijen

Exactly what I was thinkin'

John Hiemstra

Thanks for pointing out the dog. Too bad he didn't sit on one of the benches.....then you would have had a bench dog to use too.

Henrik Ubbe

Now we want to see the icicle!

Robert Garlinghouse

I would think the epoxy, by sealing the inner surface, would slow the rate of water evaporation/absorption. Can't hurt, and it might help!

Billy Schwake

Have tools will travel. Makes want a minimalist toolkit video for a toolbox to keep in your truck/car. I know you did one early in but would love to see one. I may do one on the kit I am putting together for my son as a starter kit mostly from harbor freight

Pierre-Olivier Fineltin

I am a bit worried to discover that you bring a saw and a chisel on vacation... and probably a little bunch of other tools in a finger joint toolbox. Have you ever considered carrying a Swiss knife? Well done anyway. ;-)

Robert Quinn

Perfectly sensible solution. I too find myself wrangled into little projects for my family when I visit. Most recently, my sister had a wobbly table. I said, you know what, I'm a professional woodworker, let me fix this. She said it had been driving her crazy! I started thinking of all these different fancy solutions to fix the wobble. Maybe I could cut some shims for the legs. Maybe I could trim some parts. Turns out, I just needed to tighten a few screws, and, presto! Fixed the wobble. Sometimes the best solution is not the fanciest or most highly technical. Excellent video as always!

John Shufelt

As a patron on Patreon, ur welcome! lol. Great on-the-spot fix, Rex. My bet it that it will hold up just fine, but as you say, time will tell. Creativity involves chances and responses to conditions and resources. Cheers.

Paul Boegel

Vise grips will give the same pattern as the ribbed dowels you buy at the hardware store. I have been doing it that way for 30yrs at least.

Otakar Schön

first, the table saw, now epoxy... I have to say I like it. Customer is always right but I would still use bowties on the underside where they wont be seen. It is surprisingly fun to make them even with very limited skills

Matt Evans-Koch

Nice repair Rex. I don't know of anybody else that carries tools on their vacations. You are amazing. Thank you for the video.

Braden Mabry

What about adding bowties NOW to the bottom? Wouldn't be visible, but would still add more stabibility?

Sean O'Neill

Great video, Rex. Going above and beyond the call on vaycay! One question, though. Wouldn’t butterfly keys on the underside along with the epoxy work, if you need to make another repair? At least they wouldn’t be visible.

Robert Bullock

It’s not a river table but a muddy puddle table. You could become the muddy puddle table guy! :)

Meryl Logue

I like the vise-grips idea because the moisture in the glue will expand them back out to full size and full contact.

Stephen Ellis

Great work as always Rex. One thought I had that your brother could easily do is to cut some kerfs into the bottom of the slab. Length wise with the grain so the slab can move more freely and perhaps avoid another split.

Meryl Logue

Would love a check-in next year!

Meryl Logue

Very similar to me first reaction!

Richard C von Brecht

Very informative. Shows what a few tools and some ingenuity can do. The best part you don’t get lost in perfectionism and do something that you can be proud of. I know you don’t like dragging family into the videos but I wanted to see if your brother looked anything like you. Seriously it’s great to do something with him. Those are some of the best moments.