I’m making new kitchen cabinet doors from maple w/ maple ply panels (flat recessed panel, mission style). I pulled a bone-head move and gouged one of the panels on the table saw blade. There are a couple other spots here and there (mostly on the back of the panels) that have some dings and nicks and I want to fill them somehow w/out it being obvious when I finish them.
I will be using an aniline dye w/ Waterlox and possibly a wipe on poly for durability. What can I do to fill some of those gouges in such a way that it won’t be a glaring flaw (right at eye level no less)?
thanks, Jake
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Your best bet (I know you don't want to read this) is to replace that panel now. It won't be that hard to rout off the back side of the panel's groove, and brad/glue on new retaining strips. Next best, lay in a patch covering the gouge, with a piece from the same stock (same grain pattern, and inclining in the same direction) as the panel. Be sure and make the patch with irregular (not right-angled corners) edges. The darker the finish, the better. Filling the gouge with plastic wood, famo-wood, stain putty, rock-hard water putty or the like will be obvious to the casual passerby, unless you are the artistic type and can paint wood grain on it to match. Whatever you do, be prepared to replace the panel as a last resort, after you've finished the project, and the wife says, "What's that?" (Pointing to your invisible repair.)
The smaller dings, on the inside of the doors, likely can be filled with stick shellac or putty, whatever you normally use.
Regards,
Ray Pine
Let me put it this way - if it were for a paying customer I'd change the panel now, no question. Does your wife qualify for the same treatment?
Technically, I second everything that Ray said.
DR
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