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I have a maple end table that has minor damage to the finish. A small amount of water dripped from a glass and remained overnight on the finish. I don’t have a ‘wet ring’ but a 2 inch ‘buckle’ has appeared in the finish. You could picture it like when a highway buckles in the winter from frost. The buckled portion is about 1/16th of an inch high by 2 inches in length running along with the wood grain. Is there any way to ‘push’ the wood back down? I have heard of placing a warm iron over a piece of cloth to raise up a dent in wood, but don’t know how to press a raised spot. Can I keep from re-finishing the whole table-top?
Thanks,
Nelson Whelan
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Are you sure the finish is buckling? Buckling is general associated with a veneer that gets wet.
If it is the veneer then it needs to be re-glued.
I would suggest you post this on the WOOD Magazine finishing forum at http://www.woodmagazine.com/talk/
There are number of pro finisher and re-finisher types there.
*Howard,Thanks for the advice. I have re-posted as suggested. Perhaps you are right, it may be a veneer, although I thought it was solid maple. If it is veneer I hope to find out how to go about re-glueing it.
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