Woodworking Projects, Plans and Courses

If you are interested in woodworking, here’s my collected projects, plans and courses.  Check them out!

 

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  1. Never use fillers when a new piece of wood can be made to fit the space and glued in place. If a corner is damaged, cut it off and make a new corner. Match the grain pattern by selecting a piece that best matches the one you are replacing. Then sand and stain. New wood is way better than any filler and it stains to match. I recently restored a 200 year old Bakers bin table. The legs were cracked, and pieces were missing. Many woodworkers would have glued it back together and filled the gaps but it still would have an ugly scar. So I found some Doug fir to match, cut it in thin 2 mm thick strips and glued them on the faces of each leg so they would all match. A little skill and you can repair some very small defects by carving out the defect and carefully shaping a piece to fix it just like a puzzle. But to look natural it has to be the same grain pattern. I have had to cut a plug out of the middle of a board just to get the right piece for repair. But the results speak for themselves. I only use filler when it is for small tiny defect or when replacing the wood is impractical. Such was the case on the turned portion of the legs.

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