Rubbing Out the Surface in Wood Scratch Repair

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Ok, now we've let that lacquer surface dry, we've got a nice hard finish. You can see kind of halo affect all around, and that's where the spray is mixed with the surrounding finish and we want to try to blend that together. So what we're going to do that by rubbing it out a little bit. We're going to take a little bit of compound and some steal wool and just work that in, all the way around the surface. Again, you want to always rub with the grain. When in doubt, rub with the grain, which is pretty much everything we do. It's kind of a light pressure; you don't want to put a lot of pressure on it. Then, after you've got it worked in good, you want to take a dry, clean, rag and just buff it a little bit. We're just trying to mend those two finishes together so it kind of disappears. Now you can kind of see the surface again and the halo is kind of gone, it's blended in with the rubbing and the compound and the steal wool. It's a combination of everything. All we have left to do is, polish the whole surface and bring up the sheen to make it all look like the rest of the piece of furniture, wherever this damage may have occurred. Be on the front drawer, side, or top, we want to make the whole area blend together so that'll be done next, in the polishing stage.

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