Epoxy + Coffee Grounds

[James Combs]

Used K cups work for me too. check different blends from light (blonde) to French Roast, you might be able to get better matches to the color.

FYI there was a prior thread on this that got rather humorous.

Thom, I remember that thread, it compared several varieties of coffee. Wish I could remember who wrote it. I remember being in stitches by the time I finished reading it. Might have been the Californian that had his shop in a tent and I think he also made a concrete bowl lathe, maybe a "David Ca...." or something like that, just can't remember anything any more.

Edit: Just did a little search on names, I believe I am thinking of David DeCristoforo, continuing to check on the thread.

Found this is one by David, wasn't as long as I remember but still pretty good.

[Bill Boehme]

Like John Keeton, used coffee grounds are what I use. I don't use coffee grounds to color the epoxy because I feel that it just makes a thick dark mess. I prefer to sprinkle the grounds on top of the epoxy (or CA) so that I wind up with an irregular bark inclusion appearance. I don't use it where it doesn't "fit". For me, there needs to be a good reason to use any particular "fix" such as this. To me, using it or anything else to simply fill a crack only serves to highlight what you have done. Generally, I combine a number of different "tricks" to sculpt a synthetic "natural" feature or sometimes to create the missing part of a natural feature.