This is an inlay technique I learned from Craig Lavin right here on the OLF. Of course Craig was applying it to inlay, I am applying what I learned to knotholes. And of course you need to be a knothead to do something like this.
I qualify.
So, I took the backslices to the scanner, made my copies, glued the knots to an ebony headplate veneer, went over to the bandsaw and the rest is history. I glued the wood face down against wax paper in the gobar. Filling the voids with ebony dust, the CA sent up just the slightest plume of smoke, which I kept blowing away from my nostrils.
After three or four attempts, it was full and I headed to the drum sander. Oh, I did seal the holes and boards with Zinnser's Bullseye Shellac to seal the wood from getting Ebony dust in the pores. It worked. What do you think. Now Craig it's ready for some real inlay, into the stable woods. That was fun, and a bit "whimsical".
