Building Boxes: Any Special Treatment of Knots?

[Adam Foster Collins]

I'm wondering what advice you might have for treatment of knots when building gear. Some of the wood I have is pretty knotty, but they're sound. Do you just paint them, or do you have a particular approach to keeping them solid?

Thanks,

Adam

[gmcharlie]

work the paint in good, spakel with construction adhesive before paint if in doubt.

[Michael Palmer]

When you cut up the wood, keep knots away from edges and ends of pieces. Milling and assembly will be much easier.

[signalten]

I like the construction adhesive idea. I usually put a good coat of Titebond III on the knots before priming and painting.

[Mr.Beeman]

Definately (use good quality) primer then paint two coats. Typically they will not fall out unless the are loose from the start.
Loose ones... Titebond glue.

[KPeacock]

I tried to trim away knowts when ripping boards down and avoid getting them on the cut ends, so that assembly would be easier. The knotted areas soak up a lot more paint, so i just kept applying paint until they wouldn't soak up any more. I like the idea of squishing in some glue before painting. I wish i would have done that.

[irwin harlton]

hot glue gun fixes them pretty good

[CherylO]

oil based or latex paint?????

[KPeacock]

I used latex, as this is what I had on hand, but while looking through old posts, I found comments in a few places indicating that the use of oil based was fine. I think the oil based is overlooked becasue there are no monetary savings, and it is harder to clean up, requiring chemicals, also if sprayed, it nearly always requires a thinner to be used. Furthermore, Home depot doesn;t havea shelf of "oops" oil paints