Making up a homemade Wood Bondo Filler type paste using saw dust and wood glue. Matthias Wandel shows this often in his videos. Check him out. • Can you squeeze all th... Behind the Scenes RU-vid Channel: / @oldbarnhomestead
Put the saw dust on a paper plate first and move it back and forth this will let the smaller particles of sawdust to separate use the smaller particles and you will get a better filler that will sand smoother.
Great tip, never run across it before. Seen guys use super glue with wood putty powder to fill plastic pretty successfully. Except you don't use your fingers lol. Very logical way of dealing with it, I'd bet it's long lasting too. Thanks for sharing even if it was "borrowed" haha.
I have stained the saw dust and let it dry and then mixed it with wood glue to match the stain color used on the wood many times also a great tip for wood workers dealing with old finishes chewing tobacco has a dark rich pigment that will help with matching aged stain colors wood is very interesting work and dealing with antiques can be a challenge but also a great way to make some cash
First wanna say I love the rustic look. This works very well saved me on many of wood work projects my current one is a computer desk top 2 of the pieces had a gap so I did this, great video thanks
I use that method all the time for gun stocks I work on where the 'smith got a little happy to make the action fit and slipped. Great for repairing gouges but there's a learning curve to color matching using that method.
associated comment: 2 tips for glue-ups by those with no shop -obviously, you want to lay the boards on a really flat surface. ALSO, though, weight down the top as best you can prior to clamping -if you aren't planing, then wet the surface with water from a soaked cloth. best luck is usually with a random-orbit sander and coarse grit. You will need to clean the sanding pad often, but easily done by just tapping your sander against the wet rag. I've used this quite a bit on small projects, and you get a really smooth, professional-looking surface.
This is def a nice method. I learned to actually make a putty with the wood glue and the wood shavings. That works really well as well. and then you use a plastic putty knife to get it all in there. I am new to all of this wood working stuff. IS this something you have tried and changed your method or do you think this will work just as well? Also, you do not waste other saw dust.
The glue is as strong or stronger than wood, so if it's just a crack, you should be good. If you're painting, you'll be good. The trouble will come if you attempt to stain. Narrow cracks will look fairly natural, but wide cracks might give away the fill since glue doesn't stain particularly well.
5:45 I don't think anyone is the inventor of this trick... it's a pretty intuitive concept and has probably been thought of by many different wood workers throughout the years. Awesome tip though. Rubbing the sawdust into the glue seems to look a little more natural than making a paste and then using the paste as a woodfiller... it always comes out a little darker than the actual wood.
If is big gaps then you make the paste hard,if the gaps are small then make paste more runny. It works better than this example on the video. Super glue and wood dust works really well. Cover the area with super glue then sprinkle wood dust. Do it in layers. When is done it's stronger than anything apart from metal. It dries out rock hard and more reliable than any filler.
Why not mix the glue and dust first into a paste and then fill with it? That's what I've always done...is there an advantage to doing it like the video?
If you’re painting the finished product and not varnishing or oiling use 2 part car body filler, it expands and contracts with even soft wood just prepare for some serious sanding.
I recommend using wax paper if you want to patch an adhesive to a piece of missing wood. Btw, I work in fiberglass repair. I just thought wood glue on waxpaper would be effective.
I have never had my puddy crack .Im 60 and i made a hatchet out of wood when i was a kid so 40 plus years later still holding up . Here's the kicker I stained it with brow shoe polish thats even held up all these years .
i am an experienced woodworker. thanks for taking the time to share you knowledge. i use actual bondo on wood too, and i was researching actual bondo with wood to further this knowledge and this video came up. i was disappointed that it had nothing to do with bondo, so i'm giving a thumbs down because of a bad video label that includes the word bondo, yet the video has nothing to do with actual bondo. sorry edit: i have used wood glue and the same saw dust from the wood i am filling, the reason i use bondo is for larger gaps that interface with with something that needs to flat and level in an EXTERIOR setting. i am not sure sure how carpenter's glue compares to bondo in an semi-exterior setting, but i think bondo beats glue in terms of performance. i rarely use glue or bondo, so i'm off to the store in either case, so i mind as well get what works best for my application.
