Hill's Space

Tool Refurbishing

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Tiny flakes of glass have chipped off the top edge of the tool (they look like white dots)
I poured epoxy over my old tool to ensure any coarse scratch-producing grit stays trapped in the tool, then covered it with a new layer of tiles.
Closeup of my new tool after curing and removing the webbing. The epoxy seems to have created a smooth bottom layer that the tiles are embedded in, but some of those gaps have a bit of an epoxy ceiling thanks to the epoxy climbing the walls and getting caught under the webbing

15 minutes of more grinding created even more scratches, starting from the edge and moving in. I think maybe I wasn’t using enough liquid and my tool was knocking off bits of the edge glass and dragging them inwards.

To avoid any possibility of my tool having coarse grit caught in the channels in between tiles, I remade my tool. I bought some “tabletop epoxy” which takes 3 days to cure and covered my existing tool with it, then put on a new layer of tiles. I kept the tiles on the webbing this time, and it looks like that has created even, easily cleanable gaps in between each tile.

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