Better Than Wood Filler! || Great Method For Fixing Checks and Cracks 

just started off in the woodworking business and I just received my first order, and I thought I was going to have to start over because of the snipe, you just saved my project and my wallet, the repair advice worked out perfectly. Thanks Jeff, your advice on the video is a trick I'll never forget!

I’m a wood working nut, and this was a cool trick!

Building a custom coffee table for a customer, had some cracks in my joints. I was very upset because it looked like shit, but this saved the whole job. Amazing tip I will take it with me the rest of my carpentry days.

Great idea, will make my project look super.

Man do I wish I'd seen this before!!! Will certainly be trying this! Thanks!

Genius. Thank you!

Great tip.

Wow thanks! You just saved my project!

Awesome! I’ll be doing this to all of my cracks... ...except one...

This is the video I was looking for. Thank you for making it. Very nice work. Thank you!

Thanks Jeff - Nice & Simple.

Brilliant idea! Loved it! Made perfect sense! Thanks!

Fantastic tip! Thanks!

This is great! Thank you!!

Great idea! Thanks for the great hack!

Man that sure did help. I had some huge gaps in my floor and that worked nicely. Thanks.

awesome tip! thanks for sharing!

Going to do this with the table I am working on. Makes perfect sense, wood fillers never match up with any wood.

This worked out perfectly for me, thanks for sharing

Thanks for the tip! Have an old rocking chair that I'm working on restoring and this trick should do

Awesome thanks first video that fixes the problem without epoxy awesome video

Great video thanks

Very cool. Thank you for this

What a brilliant idea. Well done dude...

Love it

Badass dude thanks

Nice technique. Thanks

Great idea definitely have done this and works great

That was pretty good.

Thank you.

this is awesome, probably the best way to do it! watched a lot of videos before this one, and the result werent that good

Good tip... I have just made a table and that happened to me... Guess what I'm going to be doing now 👍 thanks

Hell yeah! Like number 666. I am going to try this on a cedar Barton I’m building.

v nice one

Thanks 👍

sweet

Thank you! I will definitely try this!

Not sure I can hit 5% on the cut, but an AWESOME tip!! What did you use for the clear finish coat?

awesome job Jeff, so simple and so perfect! can I ask what Dewalt table saw you use for doing that?

Nice video. Thanks for sharing .can you tell me what polish or color you used? Nice clear finish 👍. And what sealer I can use to prevent furniture from spliting ?? Waiting for your experienced reply

wonderful... show me how to repair a chipped corner now

Hmm I bought an old “queen and dining room set“ from a thrift store I have no idea what type of wood it is. I know that I could use wood glue but where would I find a little piece of wood to do this technique that you show in the video? Or would I just be better off gluing it only seeing as how I don’t know what type of wood I’m working with?

it is so weird, i come up with this method in my head, was going to try it later, and youtube suddenly recommend this video.

Hey, nice bit of info! I’ve been trying to research this strategy for quite some time. Maybe I’m just not using the correct search terms, but finding ANY info on possible ways to use this technique has been an absolute nightmare. I’ve got a few cracks in the top of my acoustic guitar, (running parallel to the strings and the grain.) I’ve rehumidified the guitar, which significantly helps to close the cracks, but not quite all the way. Plus... the cracks predate my ownership of the instrument, and were already pre-stained by a few year’s worth of dirt and dust... Methods of removing those stains before I attempt the repair job is another topic I’ve spent WAY too long trying to find, with zero results. So with no experienced outside info to educate myself with, I’ve been thinking the best way to remove the discoloration at this point is to very slowly and carefully razor it out... which then becomes reason #2 for filling the cracks with your method shown here. (Though it would be on a much smaller scale) If that’s the road I take, the cracks will likely end up in a “V” shape, with the biggest part of the gap (approx. 1/16”) being on the surface of the guitar top, getting slimmer as it travels down towards the body cavity. Some parts of which are not cracked all the way through, so even after removing the stained wood, I’m not gonna be left with large holes to fix. Sorry for the lengthy precursor... My questions are, would you think that this approach, if done with extreme caution, is a good course of action, or would you suggest another route? Do you have any experience in instrument repairs? Any insight or advice would be much appreciated. Though I don’t have any real training in woodworking, I’ve been shocked at the results I’ve gotten with previous fixes, based on someone’s RU-vid video, and a lot of patience. I think I’ve got a knack for this sort of thing... just not any expertise. Anyway, thanks for your time, and again, great video!

Can you repair my balsa porch deck?

Hello, is there an "official name" for this technique or do you know of any search terms I could use to find more videos using this same technique? I can't seem to find other videos like this. Unless you're the only one lol

Just like repairing a piano soundboard!

This is great! Thank you!!