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Summary: Applying finishing polish to grain repair. 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
Aright, this is it, the final thing, part of the process, this will clean the surface area a little bit and it will also even out the sheen, make it look a little better. You can use pretty much any product, any kind of furniture polish spray, a little bit of 4.0 steel wool, you definitely want to make sure is 4.0 because that's the best there is and it's least likely to scratch the surface. Again, once we get it on there, we're going to rub with the grain, all across the area, with moderate pressure. This is just restoring the original finish, the sheen, the color and depth, it will all come back. After you rub that, a little bit, you want to get another fine and clean area rag and buff it again. The divot area is almost completely gone. The reason is, because the color wasn't broken. Anytime you can get away with breaking the color, you are way ahead of the game. Whenever you dig down and you get into the color base, and you have to start over, you can see there's a lot more, in bringing that color back and bringing the sheen and the texture and all the things surrounding it. So, if you can catch it, in this stage, it's much easier and much better for the dent also for the repair. However, as you just seen, both problems can be fixed and fairly easily and it's an in home deal, where we can come in and fix this in the home, where we wouldn't have to bring a whole huge sideboard in maybe, or something more heavy, that you wouldn't want to move around just for one ding or bang. These products can go a long way, in fixing things like this and that's what they are here for really, is to go on sight and fix things and take care of small damages. Whether it be shipping damage or living with it around the house or animal damage, would be a dog or cat scratches, we can take care of all those kinds of things too, if they are minor. If they are really severe, we'd have to go to the extreme and refinish but this is a nice little repair job for small dings and bangs that you find around the house.