Homemade wood filler. Make your own wood filler with sawdust wood dust gather your wood dust. The most important ingredient is sawdust from your project. If thats not enough to convince you to make your own wood filler this recipe only requires two ingredients. Ok i confess im a perfectionist.
To me there are few things worse than completing a wood project and having gaps in joints or noticeable circles where a hole was filled with wood putty. Fill those little gaps and blemishes with homemade wood dough. Recently when dovetailing drawers together a slip of the bit resulted in an overcut. Diy wood filler will closely match your projects wood but it will not be exactly the same since the glue will be a different color from the wood.
If you plan to stain your project afterword homemade wood filler typically takes up the stain very similarly to the actual wood. Make your own wood filler. Actually in a lot of ways i think youre better off not buying wood filler. Virtually invisible wood putty for any species of wood free.
Diy filler works well for filling small holes and cracks but is not strong enough to bridge large holes cracks and gouges. By journal staff nov 20 2014. You cant match wood grain. Stop wasting your hard earned money on store bought wood fillers that dont match your project.
Im sharing a diy wood filler recipe thats easy to make easy to sand and will save you money. The other ingredient in a homemade sawdust wood filler is something to hold it together. As with any wood filler your diy filler will not be able to match the. Again this is a limitation of all wood fillers.
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