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Summary: What is the clear divot in a wood scratch? Learn about fixing scratches in wood furniture in this free home carpentry video.
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Curt Martin Curtis W. Martin is a third-generation antiques restorer. He began working in his father's furniture repair business when he was 10 years old, and hasn't bee... read more
Alright, now we've go these two divots, we've got the splinters out, we're all clean, ready to go. We're going to work on this divot here first. This dent, no color broken, but we've got some things we're going to use to fill that back in and raise it back to a level surface. I've got out several colors here you can see. We've got some clear ones, some amber color, we've even got some darker, ambery colors that are transparent, but they're really dark. And all of these have their different uses. Here is one that's almost like a waxy finish. We can use pretty much any of these sticks for the divot, but the one that looks the best and works the best for me is the amber color. So we're going to go with that. I've had a knife plugged in for a little while and it's gotten hot. It's hot to the touch. And what it does, it melts this plastic stick. You want to take off just enough to fill the divot. We're going to lay it in there, right in the surface. Kind of smooth it around a little bit. You want to make sure you fill the whole area that is divoted out and smooth it a little bit with the knife. We're going to leave that lumped up. We want to put in more than we need right now. Just a little bit more on the top. So now you can see the divot looks like a big blob on there. That's kind of what we wanted. So, we'll let that cool and dry for a minute, and then we'll continue.