Let's forego all of the locker room jokes on this title...
I'm looking to experiment with vacuum impregnating large scale wood pieces - i.e. bartops and live edge tables from porous woods like western pine.
The thought is that I would wrap a long beam such as a bar top with top and bottom plastic, seal the two layers into a "bag" and create resin input lines at the ends and the vacuum port at the center or vice versa.
The resin would carry a pigment (such as black) and flow into the pores, colorizing it into unique patterns as well as sealing it and making it very polishable and clean.
I would then air or heat cure (possibly UV lamps or a "heat box" out back) then sand and polish.
Has anyone tried this on a scale larger than wood tuning pen blanks? Resources? Ideas? Suggestions? Adult Supervision?
Thanks!
~Angelo