Has anyone ever used sawdust/sanding dust as a filler to achieve a color match and a good filler for open grained wood like oak or ash? I remember someone commenting on sanding dust. I took 2 cups of saw blade chips and ground them in my coffee grinder to a fine dust and am thinking it may work. comments s.v.p.
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"and am thinking it may work." Try it on some scrap. Sounds like you're not so much trying to fill a defect as trying to fill the pores some? If you're not trying to get the glass-smooth surface of completely filled pores, but just reduce the appearance of the pores and achieve some smoothness, wet-sanding will work. For instance, wet-sanding with Watco. It works up a slurry that partially fills the pores. There have been several threads here with details, if you want to brave a search.
Like FG said, practice on scrap. I have used wood flour from a belt sander with so-so results.
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