I’m in the process of restoring a chest of drawers. A six inch piece of the beading surrounding the carcass opening is pretty chewed up. Splicing a new piece of wood would be pretty tough. I was thinking of building the bad section up with either stainable Minwax wood filler or Bondo. Any suggestions/comments?
Also, when I removed the veneer from the drawer fronts, some of the underlying wood had a light green stain. Any idea what this is or how to remove it?
Thanks.
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I don't think that wood filler will work for what you want to do...you may want to consider a nice "painted" finish for the piece as it sounds like it will be diffocult to get the results you want with the green stain...personally, I would try to remove and replace whatever moulding/detail is damaged.
The green may also be a Poplar wood...I've restored antiques that were of old heart poplar that were as green as kermit the frog when I sanded them down...If you do want to finish the piece with a natural finish what has worked well for me in the past is a very red Cherry Stain, as the red will cancel out some of the green.
You could topcoat the reddish stain with a brownish semi transparent wiping stain like bartley's if you wanted a more traditional "brown" finsih.
Post some pics when you get it done!
Chris
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