Using Inlace

[Andy Kaiser]

I saw this at woodcraft the other night and thought that it would be worth trying. I turn turkey calls and on the back of some of them I engrave turkey tracks across the back. I bought some inlace and mixed it the best that I could understand and put it in the tracks. Two days later the excess is still wet and has not hardened. I set it under a lamp all of last night and this morning it had not changed at all.

Is there something that I am doing or not doing? All I have gotten from the directions is to mix the hardener with the Inlace, but it is not getting hard and it is not sticking to my wood?

[Charlie]

I reckon I'm not quite following you. Usually, with inlace, you mix it with 2 part epoxy, which means you would have a hardner and resin. You would mix these two together in equal parts and then mix in the inlace and put that mixture into the void or groove of your turning. You can also use CA glue. If you only used a hardner, you are missing the resin, I would think.