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I finally understood why my dad was so picky about his hand plane after I ruined a $120 piece of walnut at the community workshop.
I was rushing to flatten the board and didn't check for grain direction, so the blade just tore out a huge chunk right before the final sanding, and now I'm wondering if anyone has a good method for fixing a tear-out that's almost a quarter inch deep.
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ericj4517d ago
My uncle once tried to "fix" a similar mess with wood filler and it looked like a bad skin graft on a table leg. He ended up cutting the whole section out and making it a design feature with a contrasting wood patch, which actually looked pretty cool (way better than his first plan). That kind of mistake is a real gut punch, especially with nice wood. A quarter inch is deep enough you might be looking at routing out a clean rectangle and fitting in a new piece of walnut.
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kellys7817d ago
That "bad skin graft" line from @ericj45 is perfect... it's like when people try to hide a mistake and just make it stand out more.
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roberts9516d ago
Ever see someone try to fix a mistake and just make it way worse?
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