How to Restore Old Wood FurnitureTips & Techniques for Sanding Wood Furniture

Okay, let's get this project started. Notice
how I got my hair pulled back, safety goggles are on and I've got the mask ready to go.
I also have the project on a level surface and the smaller pieces have been properly
secured so they don't move around while I. Am sanding. Here are some tips for sanding.
Be sure to secure your item properly before sanding.

Always make sure to start the power
sander before placing it on the wood. Use both hands to control the sander while using
minimal pressure. Don't lean in to or onto the sander as this can produce uneven spots
in the wood. Do any grinding work at a slight angle with just the top third of the disc
in contact with the work piece.

For the orbital sander, make sure you are traveling in the
direction of the wood grain. Have a towel or vacuum nearby to clean off the sawdust
as you are working. This ensures that the surface you are working on is clean and will
be sanded evenly. And don't forget to change the sandpaper as it will get worn down while
you are sanding.

Here is a couple more safety tips as well. When you turn off the sander,
always make sure it has stopped completely before setting it down. Never touch the sandpaper
while it is moving on the sander because you will end up sanding yourself..

How to Repair Wood Veneer FurnitureHow to Glue Wood Veneer Furniture Patch

Okay now we're ready to put in the patch that
we've cut. As I mentioned before while I was making this patch it broke in half. But that
is going to be okay because the two pieces should fit together and you won't notice it
at all. Usually I would use wood glue to do this but in this case I am going to use super
glue because it is a lot faster.

Woa that's an awful lot. I am going to use super glue
and use this business card to spread it around. I am using a type of super glue that is very
very slow to dry and it's thicker than your usual super glue. I've got quite a bit on
there and I'm going to take some of it off.

Okay I got some of that out of the way. You
will want to have a rag handy because it looks like some of this super glue is going to squeeze
out over the top and you will want to wipe it off pretty carefully. Here is the first
piece. That one goes right up here and let me get my glasses so I can see this a little
closer.

Push this portion of the patch into place. I have left it hanging out just a little
bit at the end and we will trim that when we are done. Then I am going to take the second
part of the patch and just push it up around that one. Be careful not to get super glue
on your fingers if you can and if you do get some super glue on your fingers you can take
it off with nail polish.

I'm just going to press the patch down as well as I can right
in there. Get this piece and push that in as close as I can. Now I'm going to use this
material right here which is called zip kicker and it hardens super glue instantly so just
a couple of squirts and that glue is going to set up. Get in as close as you can and
push the patch down.

Sometimes they will try to curl up and as you can see this one is
trying to curl up a little bit. Push it down and give it a squirt. I am going to do that
on the front part too.
Okay so now we have our patch installed. As I said before ordinarily this would be done
in a restoration shop because the idea is to make that line, that cut out line as invisible
as possible.

This will do for now and we are going to wipe it down and push it down and
push it down. That's pretty good. It will take a little sanding and a little bit of
finish but as you can see if you get right down on it you can see that line. From further
away a casual observer won't see that patch at all..

How to repair Wood Furniture At Home by Pottery Barn

Furniture Repairs Made Easy This is our entryway bench and antique ride and today what I want to do I want to show how to how to repair some of these damages. We need  a rough patch, a soft patch and the plastic card, the hard one and a wax stick and a touch up pen and and pretty much all these items available locally at your grocery store or
hardware store. Before we start and go ahead and work on that we look at the surface the first thing is to check on
the color tone, of the pen to see it's matching to the surface that we will repair, and it's a very very good match, here we have a lot of holes and it looks quite damaged and what you do is you take your wax stick and you rub in some wax and see how easy it is to fill it? Now we can see I've filled all these
holes of the damage and to test it now the plastic card drive or whatever you have, I just put the sharp edge here, that on the surface and we remove
the excess wax. Take your pad and you rub in the grain direction, and you clean up all the excess wax on the surface, it looks really amazing, there are just a few spots
where substrates of the wood is looking through, and what we do, we take our white touch up pen, dab a little bit, on the surface and just take your time look at how nice that looks, you let it dry for about two or three hours and then you can use it.

We want to repair our Montego pedestal table in our Mahogany finish. We want  to repair that really deep damage what we have here, we have the
mahogany color tone here burnishing here the dark area here, so the way we start out is
first Color tone all the very deep scratch with the Mahogany tone, you do that very very light, and rub away the excess material so you've blend it in right away. What we do first is we rub very hard with a lot of pressure, and just fill it, and then you remove the excess material, look at how clean that looks here. And then on the edge you just take your pad, and recreate the way you use the table edge,
and now you can see the difference from the Mahogany, expecially on the edge.

We will start off first with a black edge, and we feather in the color tone, and now we're using our  mahogany color tone marker, we do very very small dabs, and
it blends in  to the surrounding surface. Okay now we are done, with great results repairing
the furniture, It looks amazing the final result. Pottery Barn.

How to Repair Furniture ScratchesPolishing in Wood Scratch Repair

Aright, this is it, the final thing, part
of the process, this will clean the surface area a little bit and it will also even out
the sheen, make it look a little better. You can use pretty much any product, any kind
of furniture polish spray, a little bit of 4.0 Steel wool, you definitely want to make
sure is 4.0 Because that's the best there is and it's least likely to scratch the surface.
Again, once we get it on there, we're going to rub with the grain, all across the area,
with moderate pressure. This is just restoring the original finish,
the sheen, the color and depth, it will all come back. After you rub that, a little bit,
you want to get another fine and clean area rag and buff it again.

The divot area is almost completely gone.
The reason is, because the color wasn't broken. Anytime you can get away with breaking the
color, you are way ahead of the game. Whenever you dig down and you get into the color base,
and you have to start over, you can see there's a lot more, in bringing that color back and
bringing the sheen and the texture and all the things surrounding it. So, if you can
catch it, in this stage, it's much easier and much better for the dent also for the
repair.

However, as you just seen, both problems can be fixed and fairly easily and it's an
in home deal, where we can come in and fix this in the home, where we wouldn't have to
bring a whole huge sideboard in maybe, or something more heavy, that you wouldn't want
to move around just for one ding or bang. These products can go a long way, in fixing
things like this and that's what they are here for really, is to go on sight and fix
things and take care of small damages. Whether it be shipping damage or living with it around
the house or animal damage, would be a dog or cat scratches, we can take care of all
those kinds of things too, if they are minor. If they are really severe, we'd have to go
to the extreme and refinish but this is a nice little repair job for small dings and
bangs that you find around the house..