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Old 03-18-2017, 12:22 PM
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You can get decent results with some home stabilizing, sometimes even excellent results if you're set up for cactus juice. But, the pro process uses a better resin and 4000 psi of pressure in addition to the vacuum. The vacuum process can get your resin all the way through the wood if the wood is porous enough but the pressure gets the resin inside every cell of the wood. At least, that's how it was explained to me.

For most people, when you look at the time required, the mess, and the cost of doing effective home stabilizing for the amount of wood one maker can use it can be hard to justify the expense. I'd rather send my wood out and put my time and effort into making knives ....


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