Anyone have suggestions for making my own wood filler?
I am making white oak furniture and have a few small gaps and nicks I will
need to fill. No store bought products seem to be working very well.
A woodworker friend suggested sanding some white oak and mixing the dust
with 2# Shellac to make a paste. Another friend claims that will be too
shiny and I should mix it with something else.
Any of you fine woodworkers have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Steve

Steve Goodin wrote:

Anyone have suggestions for making my own wood filler?
I am making white oak furniture and have a few small gaps and nicks I will
need to fill. No store bought products seem to be working very well.
A woodworker friend suggested sanding some white oak and mixing the dust
with 2# Shellac to make a paste. Another friend claims that will be too
shiny and I should mix it with something else.
Any of you fine woodworkers have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Steve

Mix glue and the sawdust from the project your gluing. works great! But you
may have a hard time getting it to take stain.

Rich
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"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"

Go with the shellac and sawdust. Mix it fairly thin and let it set up before
you sand it off and decide if you need another application. Sanding prior to
finishing will remove the shellac and "expose" the sawdust allowing it to
take a finish. It will be darker than the surrounding wood but should "tone"
nicely.

Good luck
Rob

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"Steve Goodin" wrote in message
...
Anyone have suggestions for making my own wood filler?
I am making white oak furniture and have a few small gaps and nicks I will
need to fill. No store bought products seem to be working very well.
A woodworker friend suggested sanding some white oak and mixing the dust
with 2# Shellac to make a paste. Another friend claims that will be too
shiny and I should mix it with something else.
Any of you fine woodworkers have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Steve

It's white oak, so it will probably be painted. No worries.

John

EvoDawg wrote:

But you
may have a hard time getting it to take stain.

Rich

shellac probably will be too shiny. I would try colored wax fillers. The wax
is hard and is mineral based [ozerkite ? spelling?]
so finishes will take over it. Available at most finishing supply houses in
a myriad of colors. fill the voids and rub out with oooosteel wool with
mineral spirits if necessary.
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mike hide



"Steve Goodin" wrote in message
...
Anyone have suggestions for making my own wood filler?
I am making white oak furniture and have a few small gaps and nicks I will
need to fill. No store bought products seem to be working very well.
A woodworker friend suggested sanding some white oak and mixing the dust
with 2# Shellac to make a paste. Another friend claims that will be too
shiny and I should mix it with something else.
Any of you fine woodworkers have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Steve

Rob Stokes wrote...
Go with the shellac and sawdust. Mix it fairly thin and let it set up before
you sand it off and decide if you need another application. Sanding prior to
finishing will remove the shellac and "expose" the sawdust allowing it to
take a finish. It will be darker than the surrounding wood but should "tone"
nicely.

I have added corn starch to counter the darkening effect. Sand a couple
test patches to get the mix right, but it's often close to equal parts
with the wood dust. Bandsaw dust works great.

Jim

"EvoDawg" wrote...
Steve Goodin wrote:
Anyone have suggestions for making my own wood filler?
I am making white oak furniture and have a few small gaps and nicks I
will
need to fill. No store bought products seem to be working very well.
A woodworker friend suggested sanding some white oak and mixing the dust
with 2# Shellac to make a paste. Another friend claims that will be too
shiny and I should mix it with something else.

Mix glue and the sawdust from the project your gluing. works great! But
you
may have a hard time getting it to take stain.

Use hide glue.

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Cheers,
Howard

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I have taken sawdust from various woods and mixed it into a plain
plasticwood, but only to fill very small nicks and imperfections.

Dave

"Steve Goodin" wrote in message
...
Anyone have suggestions for making my own wood filler?
I am making white oak furniture and have a few small gaps and nicks I will
need to fill. No store bought products seem to be working very well.
A woodworker friend suggested sanding some white oak and mixing the dust
with 2# Shellac to make a paste. Another friend claims that will be too
shiny and I should mix it with something else.
Any of you fine woodworkers have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Steve