I had some cedar branches as a result of pruning and decide to mess around with them. So I made a doormat with cedar slices. Thus far, I'm happy with how it's turning out. I used contact cement to adhere the slices to a scrap piece of heavy rubber cloth (salvaged from a treadmill) and then squeezed a little wood glue into the gaps between the slices to help kind of lock them together in case the contact cement doesn't hold well. My only complaint is that I'm not super thrilled with how the gaps look on close inspection. Of course, it's a bloody doormat, so perhaps I'll decide I don't care (who's going to look that closely at it anyway). But having said that, any ideas how I could fill the gaps? Ideally, I don't want the fill to be flush with the slices. A little depth would give dirt a place to fall off shoes walking across the mat. I thought about epoxy, having used it before to fill a variety of different types of gaps and cracks but frankly, I don't want to pour it across the whole mat and have to sand until doomsday to get rid of it, nor do I want to try and carefully feed the epoxy just into the gaps, which would also take more time than I want to spend on it. Is there anything that could be brushed into the gaps dry and then wetted to harden, kind of like polymeric sand? I thought about polymeric sand but haven't even used it on a sidewalk, let alone something like this. Anywho, even if I decide to leave it as is, I'd be curious to see what ideas smarted people than me have.
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