Using Inlace

[Andy Kaiser]

I posted this in the Woodturning section, but would like to post it here also to maybe get more views...

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?

[Ron Scalf]

I have never used Inlace, but I will assume that it is a casting resin or epoxy base, that the hardner is added to. If the hardner is of the very liquid (like water) type, try brushing the hardner onto the Inlace that won't dry. In cases where I did not use enough hardner with casting resin, this has worked for me.
You may just have a bad batch of stuff. I tried looking Inlace up on the web but only found places that sold it. Did not see any links to the manufacturer. If the can has a mfg. name, type it into the search engine and see if a web site can be found.

In reply to your other post, If I want to put a deep, high gloss finish on something use clear automotive lacquer that is used for top coating the new car paints. I build dulcimers and repair and custom paint guitars and use clear lacquer directly over the wood.
The trick is to fill the grain with a sanding sealer first. Incidently clear lacquer is what all the better guitar makers use.

[Andy Kaiser]

I am not sure what the inlace is, because I haven't done much research on it. It is just a colored powder that you mix a hardener with and it is supposed to set up and be sandable.

[dwdajo]

Here are a couple of links with a little instruction from people who have done it, not just sold it.

http://www.woodturningplus.com/inlace.htm

http://arizonagourds.homestead.com/inlace.html

[Andy Kaiser]

Thanks for the links. I am going to try it again and see what happens. I may have been trying to put it in a larger area.

Is there supposed to be something to add to the inlace other than the hardener?