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by phkahler 1957 days ago
No. The white wood has rough surfaces which make them opaque. Filling the gaps with epoxy effectively removes that roughness.

Not sure how they "infuse" it. That sounds like driving it deeper.

Years ago we had an opaque SLA prototype part. I came in the next day and it was mostly transparent. The M.E. told me they painted it clear...

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> Not sure how they "infuse" it. That sounds like driving it deeper.

NileRed did a video about preparing this from a different paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1H-323d838

It seems that you just soak the thing in epoxy in a vacuum. The results were not great, though.

Yup, also AvE https://youtu.be/880a_XgvBEo and they both did it 2 years ago.