How To Repair a Dent in Wood
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Rob shows an old trick on how to repair a dent in surfaced wood. Using an iron, water and a rag you can usually make a dent disappear. Sign up for our monthly newsletter to get useful tips like this every month. Bottom of the page robcosman.com/
I have never seen this, but I do have access to Canadian water so it should work for me.
Thank you so much, I'm a carpenter and never heard this one. I've just got some new furniture and dented to oak top right on the detailed edge, while getting it in the house. You've just saved me from my wife 😂. Thank you so much for this vid
THANK YOU very much !!! I had no idea it works like this. Even 3 years later, this method is saving my beautiful raw wood furnitures today 😊
The heat and the water works together.
For really small dents, you can usually just use water. It swells the fibers in the wood and causes them to re-expand.
When you add the iron to the mix, it heats up the water into steam and makes it pressurized a slight bit. Thus making the fibers in the wood expand even more for larger dents.
You can fix accidental dents with this method and it can fix really big dents. But there is a limit and you need to sand it smooth because the water causes the grain to rise up.
SOOOO MUCH THANKS !!! Have a project that has a "piano finish" and man, EVERYTHING shows .. This saved me hours
The water swells the wood fibers. The hot iron draws the moisture back out of the wood, pulling the swollen wood fibers to the flat bottom of the iron and flush with the surrounding wood surface.
I think it's the steam to be honest. You can also use denatured alcohol and light it up on fire.
I was trying to explain this to a friend of mine and they just weren't getting it. I found this video, shared it with them, and they had great success with it! Thank you :-)
I thought everyone knew this, too, and then my daughter was astounded that I could fix some dents in her hardwood desk so easily. Always good when you can get your kids to be impressed...:)
It worked on hard oak wood. Perfect trick. Thank you so much for this video.
That’s a good tip Rob. I believe I learned that from my high school wood shop teacher waaaaaay back. 👍🏻👍🏻
Very good job guys! Amazing results! Thank you bunches.
This is like magic. One of my favorite repairs. Give it a little while to dry and you probably won't be able to tell where the dent was.
I’ve used a soldering iron to focus the heat in the damaged area and had great results
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I work a lot with white cedar and having an iron in my utility closet saved me many times. It doesn't take much to leave marks in white cedar.
I just did this yesterday and the day before. :D I'm rebuilding an antiqe door. Lots of dents and defects.
In lack of an iron I used the heat gun that worked as well. You can also put alcohol on the defect and set it on fire as Charles Niel once showed. Works too.
Heat gun is a great idea. Have you used this on a finished hardwood floor dent ?
thank you
My very first woodworking project in 7th grade had a dent in it. My shop teacher told me this method works but we used a wet cloth with a soldering iron. It works well for a small area but you need to be careful with something that hot!
Amazing, I have heard about this approach.. Would this work on hardwood floors which have been stained, etc.? Would the stain repell the water? Thanks
Does this work after the wood has been finished? If so, is there anything different in the procedure use?
I always thought it was the steam that swells the wood .
does this also work if the wood was painted?
Do you think this will work on veneer
Well, I never knew that. Stored for the future, but I'm not using metric water in Texas. Lol
Funfact: the US is already running on metric.
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So it is save to buy that water!
also fun fact many Canadians run mainly imperial measures. pounds, feet, Sq-ft, inches, acres. only really the federal shit went metric so roads in km gas in litres and federal documents will usually list metric while private businesses usually list in imperial for example going to home depot or lowes you buy a 4' x 8' sheet and a 3" pipe and a 10" blade ask a canadian how much they weigh in metric they probably wont be able to tell you, there was actually a Canadian who wants to be a millionaire parody skit made where that was the million dollar question
@@hodge542 Was his name, Red Green?
What heat setting do you use
Amazing!
Luckily I knew this works with Scottish water too, before arranging to import from Canada.
Is that from Muskoka Spring?????
I’ve done this before and it’s truly like magic. I didn’t even have to use special Canadian water! 😂
Now do something more realistic like put the dent on the edge of the wood. A nice round small compression dent on the flat plane from a hammer is not what the vast majority of wood dents are about.
A year later and I'm still looking for how to remove a dent in wood on a curved surface.
This works because the fibres have been compressed, not broken. On an edge it will typically break the fibres while compressing, because there is less wood there to resist the force.
@@RobCosmanWoodworking I dropped my face frame for a cabinet and I'm gonna attempt this technique on the corner perhaps I can get lucky.
Hopefully it works on the gash that just happened when a 50lb gate fell down the stairs.
I heard you can also use denatured alcohol and lighting it up on fire. Never did it myself mostly because my shop tends to have a lot of wood dust so it could be a firebomb.
magic :o
Awesome :)
"where did it go?" :D
Sorcery!
Hey maybe you can iron a piece of wood flat rather than planing it ??? Lol
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