TH-cam: When you want to find a way to fill plastic holes, but then the video on filling wood holes is much more exciting. This was wonderful, you are great on camera and have a nice way to be informative and yet, entertaining. I will definitely be coming back to this video for my next project! More please!
Videos like this are what make me think youtube still isn’t that bad of a platform. Seems like nearly every time I need to know how to do something theres a video for it. Thank you for your contribution to the information cluster that is TH-cam!
Thanks for taking the time to show all plugs and fills with stain and finish. Sometimes what you think is a good repair turns out to be horrible. Well done!
I fixed a bad dent on my dining table with a helthy knot that I drilled of a board with a plug drill. It actully looks like a real knot on the table. The table is made from pine. Thank you for the reminder of the dent fix with water and ironing it. Had forgotten it.
Hi Alain. I follow you from Italy, I do not know much English but as you explain, more or less I understand, I like your videos, this in particular, you learn more with these tips and techniques than with other types of video. I hope you do others. In order not to rush, I used google translate. Hello
@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker I know that you make videos in both English and French (maybe you could do them in Italian, HA HA). Unfortunately I speak only Italian and not very English, but it is not a problem, what you do and how you explain it, you understand very well. I repeat that video like this is very nice, I hope you do others like that. Hello
Good showing of results. I think because cedar is so soft it might be one of the harder woods to hide a repair on. A good tapered face grain plug in a hole with a good edge is probably the closest you can get. I did enjoy seeing the other techniques like laquer sticks.
I admire your videos :) Years ago, when you were still in your basement workshop, I first discovered your videos, and my late mother loved them too :) Whenever I watch your videos I think of her and I get warmth in my heart. Thank you for all of your videos and stay amazing.
Dear Alain, Ten hours for our benefit; it's much appreciated I am sure. The moral of the story if I may put it this way is: Get it right first time or don't make a pig's ear to begin with or words to that effect. You could equally have spent this time making a new project with mistakes ( intentional or otherwise) included with said remedial options, in which case you would have shot two birds with the same stone. All in all a very noble endeavour on your part. Kind regards.
Thank you. And yes the moral of this episode is: don't mess up, you might regret it. Miracles are in Vatican city not in our workshop. But I showed some ways to get around and hopefully it's not in a too much visible spot.
@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker Dear Alain, Thank you very much for your courteous reply. I am sure you could educate some of us during the making of one of your projects as you go along; you've done it to some degree in the past, I am sure you could carry as you normally do. It's always with fascination & informative to watch whatever you get up to. Kind Regards.
I made a few "mistake" holes in some wood and was looking for some options on how to fill them. This definitely gave me some good ideas for what to do! Thanks for making this video so clear and easy to understand, with many different side-by-side examples. Plus, your way of talking and accent is quite charming and fun. Good work, thanks Alain!
I love tips videos and you always have cool methods. I have a lacquer stick and never knew what it was. I acquired it with some old tools from a yard sale. It's white so I'm sure dying it to match wood will be very easy to use on a variety of different types of woods. Thank you so much for your time. The time and dedication you put into your projects and videos are so inspiring. Thank you. I'd love to see what other tricks you have up your sleeve.
"this may not show but I worked over 10 hours to produce this video" LOVE YOUR SYSTEMATICALLY DONE VIDEO. You left no room for questions. So thorough! Keep doing this!!!
I really enjoyed this tutorial My Friend;I picked up a cpl of tricks;And I had a laugh with Your antics. Don't change a thing! Best Wishes to the Family. ✌
I would have thought it would have better results than that. Maybe another video with maple, oak, cherry, and walnut? Variety is always appreciated. Good job.
Thank you! Despite 40 years working with wood I'd never come across the trick for steaming out dents -- oh, the sanding I could've avoided had I but known!
You dont even have to steam. I just drip water on it, go sand something else and come back. Sometimes you have to do it twice but each time it swells the wood fibers up more and then a quick sand makes it practically disappear.
So, for replacing a deep and uneven knot in a wood board, how do I do the sizing on both cutting out the knot and then creating a plug? Thanks, great video!
Try to remove the least amount of wood, sometime it's even simpler to put masking tape on the back and fill the hole with epoxy tinted or mixed with sawdust, this will definitely give a darker tint to the cured epoxy. Then if you wish you can paint some rings. or try adding them inside the epoxy, when it's still liquid with another mix of epoxy another colour and spreading it with a toothpick, but this is very hard to do and impossible to fix if you mess up. Otherwise a round hole and a plug, but anyway, like I said, this will allways show one way or the other unfortunately....
Thank you, My dad had a lot of old tools and since he only restored antique, different tools than I use to see. These days school are so afraid of injuries that they rather not teaching anything to kids except reading and writing, this is good if all the kids were to be layers...
Sorry for the late response. if you intend of painting it I would suggest just using epoxy. It will fill the crack, hole or anything and also keep everything from moving again. It's also super hard and will stand the high trafic of a stair.
Hello, this was so helpful for me. I'm putting together a beehive and messed it up square wise. I did not use 90* corner brasses to make sure they set straight, and now the box down line up with one another. So I have taken them apart, order the brasses, yet don't know how to correct the screw holes that are already set? I feel like even with the brasses intact, the screws are going to go right back into the same pattern and the boxes will again be off centered. Someone told me I do try to slightly bend each screw?!?! Or should I put toothpicks in all the holes then try to re-screw? What would you recommend? It would be so helpful to hear back from you. This is a project that is very important to me. Thank you so much. Brad
I would personally re-drill the screw' hole and fill them with dowels and then re-drill this, to screw it back again. I'm scared for you that using toothpick the screw will still follow its original path. When I mess up like that I always do something like that, if I have the space, on small boxes it's almost impossible so I use toothpick but usually then the holes are straight, just not at the right place. Good luck and keep me posted
Please try some "frencken cellocol" or a simmular product like "bona mix and fill" these are products used for parket flooring and are absolutely great for filling small holes and cracks. You just cover, for example, the hole tabletop with it and then sand it flush. I use them for all my furniture, clients love it, it makes your furniture stand out.
Thank you, those products look great. I never say anything like that around here. I check and it'S not available here in America... It'S unfortunate, and I guess it's the kind of product that you can't bring with you in your luggage...
I will have an upcoming episode fixing chairs :))) And you're confirming what I say at the beginning: If you're a woodworker you'll have 2 things that you won't be able to avoid in your life; paying your taxes and fixing chairs
I work at a cabinet shop and I have to say that the best way to fill cracks and small holes is glue and wood dust. This is a suggestion for your lacquer filler, you can melt and mix different colors together to get the color you want.
It was a fantastic test. I only use wood dust and glue for smaller repairs if the piece is not stained. The big holes I extend with a router bit into squares and then plug them.
if I mix epoxy with saw dust and fill holes in my door frame will I be able to drill new holes because the screw holes are split and door keeps coming off just need a little advice so I can fix this 🙂
your investment in time was worth it you just gained a subscriber :) I love the story about your dads tools ect, I almost only use old tool for that reason
Very helpful, Alain! I don't do much finishing per se, but when I do I try to use material from the actual damaged area, mixed with clear epoxy or CA-glue. As you pointed out, its difficult to get a perfect match but, for me, close enough is good enough. Thanks much!!
I wouldn't do it. Epoxy is quite hard it might just break like glass. Instead you can use epoxy to glue a piece of wood, and epoxy will fill all the gap if they're gaps to fill
Thankyou for this fantastic video. Seems like the only solution is to place screws between the grain and plug with the same material. That's what I needed to know and that's what I'll do.
Merci Alain! I really appreciate the thoroughness of the video! On the same piece! With and without finish! I also get my best results with the plug cutter! But I'll look into laquer sticks for smaller fixes. I've never used them. Do you fill the wholes after staining, so you can better match the color?
I try to find the colour that would better match the finish piece, because the lacquer sticks don't change the finish colour. It's why they are sold in several colours. As you can see Lee valley sells 12 different colours (www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=20071&cat=1,190,42997,42999) maybe other colours can be found elsewhere I don't know. All mine come from my father stack...
Hi Alain. I think these kind of videos are truely helpful. But: where is the intro? :-) As far as the woodfilling goes, I mostly use sawdust since its the easiest to come by. Lets face it: you have to sand the wood eventually :-) Only one concern with it. I found, that after drying, the type of woodglue here in Germany "shrinks" alot, not filling the whole 100%. Never used titebond and such since its hard to find them here. Did you notice the same? Whats the solution in your opinion? Change the ratio of dust to glue? Thanks alot in advance, best wishes and a happy new year to you and your family, Attila
Thank you, I was not sure about this type of episode so I let go of the opening, but it look strange.. .At least when I was editing it :) I I never saw titebond shrink but the colour is always too dark. I also noticed that the dust ratio just makes the glue turn into paste it doesmn't affect that much the colour. It's one of the reason I filled 3 holes each time with the same filler but with different quantity. Unless it's just a small dent let's face it; any repair will show.
TH-cam: When you want to find a way to fill plastic holes, but then the video on filling wood holes is much more exciting. This was wonderful, you are great on camera and have a nice way to be informative and yet, entertaining. I will definitely be coming back to this video for my next project! More please!
Thank you
Videos like this are what make me think youtube still isn’t that bad of a platform. Seems like nearly every time I need to know how to do something theres a video for it. Thank you for your contribution to the information cluster that is TH-cam!
I admired that you used your father's supplies and tools. Thank you for your video.
Thanks for taking the time to show all plugs and fills with stain and finish. Sometimes what you think is a good repair turns out to be horrible. Well done!
I enjoyed this new kind of “tutorial” video. It’s very helpful to someone who is thinking about starting to do some woodworking.
Yeah it saves hours of trial and error
This was an excellent video. And the time you took was quite obvious... lots of attention to details. Thank you!
I fixed a bad dent on my dining table with a helthy knot that I drilled of a board with a plug drill. It actully looks like a real knot on the table. The table is made from pine. Thank you for the reminder of the dent fix with water and ironing it. Had forgotten it.
Ingenious solution. But on a mahogany table top they're no knot, but to fix pine this is great thanks.
This is not just a tutorial, it is a university lesson. Excellent explanation, thank you.
What a fantastic video. Thank you for spending the time to make it.
Hi Alain. I follow you from Italy, I do not know much English but as you explain, more or less I understand, I like your videos, this in particular, you learn more with these tips and techniques than with other types of video. I hope you do others. In order not to rush, I used google translate. Hello
I don't know if you speak French but Alain has a French version of every videos.
@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker I know that you make videos in both English and French (maybe you could do them in Italian, HA HA). Unfortunately I speak only Italian and not very English, but it is not a problem, what you do and how you explain it, you understand very well. I repeat that video like this is very nice, I hope you do others like that. Hello
Good showing of results. I think because cedar is so soft it might be one of the harder woods to hide a repair on. A good tapered face grain plug in a hole with a good edge is probably the closest you can get. I did enjoy seeing the other techniques like laquer sticks.
These kind are great. A bit of work for a short video, but informative. Thank you and hope to see some like this from time to time.
Love this type of video from you , you have so much experience, anything you do will help others !
I admire your videos :) Years ago, when you were still in your basement workshop, I first discovered your videos, and my late mother loved them too :) Whenever I watch your videos I think of her and I get warmth in my heart. Thank you for all of your videos and stay amazing.
That was A nice change of pace I could definitely go for another episode like that.
Love this in-depth comparison! Helped me save so much time trying to figure out what plug method would work best for my project. Thank you!
Dear Alain,
Ten hours for our benefit; it's much appreciated I am sure. The moral of the story if I may put it this way is: Get it right first time or don't make a pig's ear to begin with or words to that effect. You could equally have spent this time making a new project with mistakes ( intentional or otherwise) included with said remedial options, in which case you would have shot two birds with the same stone. All in all a very noble endeavour on your part. Kind regards.
Thank you. And yes the moral of this episode is: don't mess up, you might regret it. Miracles are in Vatican city not in our workshop. But I showed some ways to get around and hopefully it's not in a too much visible spot.
@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker
Dear Alain,
Thank you very much for your courteous reply. I am sure you could educate some of us during the making of one of your projects as you go along; you've done it to some degree in the past, I am sure you could carry as you normally do. It's always with fascination & informative to watch whatever you get up to. Kind Regards.
Nice video by a genuine presenter. Merci!
Very straight forward and informative so even newbies like me can understand and learn!
Thank you so much for this video!
I made a few "mistake" holes in some wood and was looking for some options on how to fill them. This definitely gave me some good ideas for what to do! Thanks for making this video so clear and easy to understand, with many different side-by-side examples. Plus, your way of talking and accent is quite charming and fun. Good work, thanks Alain!
I do like the tips! It's nice to learn from other wood workers on stuff like this!
I enjoyed this video, sometimes seeing what not to do is equally as important!
I love tips videos and you always have cool methods. I have a lacquer stick and never knew what it was. I acquired it with some old tools from a yard sale. It's white so I'm sure dying it to match wood will be very easy to use on a variety of different types of woods. Thank you so much for your time. The time and dedication you put into your projects and videos are so inspiring. Thank you. I'd love to see what other tricks you have up your sleeve.
"this may not show but I worked over 10 hours to produce this video"
LOVE YOUR SYSTEMATICALLY DONE VIDEO. You left no room for questions. So thorough!
Keep doing this!!!
I really enjoyed this tutorial My Friend;I picked up a cpl of tricks;And I had a laugh with Your antics. Don't change a thing! Best Wishes to the Family. ✌
Thank you
I would have thought it would have better results than that. Maybe another video with maple, oak, cherry, and walnut? Variety is always appreciated. Good job.
Maybe with other species this can have better result, but I it's not a sure bet..
Thank you! Despite 40 years working with wood I'd never come across the trick for steaming out dents -- oh, the sanding I could've avoided had I but known!
You dont even have to steam. I just drip water on it, go sand something else and come back. Sometimes you have to do it twice but each time it swells the wood fibers up more and then a quick sand makes it practically disappear.
I love these kinds of videos! Even if they are just included in the middle of a build video of some kind. Thanks!
So, for replacing a deep and uneven knot in a wood board, how do I do the sizing on both cutting out the knot and then creating a plug? Thanks, great video!
Try to remove the least amount of wood, sometime it's even simpler to put masking tape on the back and fill the hole with epoxy tinted or mixed with sawdust, this will definitely give a darker tint to the cured epoxy. Then if you wish you can paint some rings. or try adding them inside the epoxy, when it's still liquid with another mix of epoxy another colour and spreading it with a toothpick, but this is very hard to do and impossible to fix if you mess up. Otherwise a round hole and a plug, but anyway, like I said, this will allways show one way or the other unfortunately....
I enjoy ALL of your videos, this one is no exception. :) Cheers from quebec!
Thanks Alain. I learnt something new from this video. Happy New Year....cheers!
I love the video. I like how you showed us all the different affects. Thanks so much. From california
Thanks for the informative video. Please continue these types of videos.
Great vid, taught me exactly what I needed. Thank you Alain
An excellent and informative video. Most useful. Thanks for going to all the trouble to test out the various ways of filling holes in wood.
You're welcome
Pretty cool! Thanks for the video. I like your dad's tools. Never seen that b4 I am not a wood worker. Wish kids today learned that stuff.
Thank you, My dad had a lot of old tools and since he only restored antique, different tools than I use to see.
These days school are so afraid of injuries that they rather not teaching anything to kids except reading and writing, this is good if all the kids were to be layers...
Another great video Alain!
Ive got 10 years in but always learning more. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for this! Do the repairs all have the same strength for a high traffic area? I need to fill holes in stair risers before painting.
Sorry for the late response. if you intend of painting it I would suggest just using epoxy. It will fill the crack, hole or anything and also keep everything from moving again. It's also super hard and will stand the high trafic of a stair.
Thanks 🙏🏼 for the video! So much good info , love your dad’s tools by the way
Great tips Alain, Thanks for sharing.
Hello, this was so helpful for me. I'm putting together a beehive and messed it up square wise. I did not use 90* corner brasses to make sure they set straight, and now the box down line up with one another. So I have taken them apart, order the brasses, yet don't know how to correct the screw holes that are already set? I feel like even with the brasses intact, the screws are going to go right back into the same pattern and the boxes will again be off centered. Someone told me I do try to slightly bend each screw?!?! Or should I put toothpicks in all the holes then try to re-screw? What would you recommend? It would be so helpful to hear back from you. This is a project that is very important to me. Thank you so much. Brad
I would personally re-drill the screw' hole and fill them with dowels and then re-drill this, to screw it back again. I'm scared for you that using toothpick the screw will still follow its original path. When I mess up like that I always do something like that, if I have the space, on small boxes it's almost impossible so I use toothpick but usually then the holes are straight, just not at the right place.
Good luck and keep me posted
Please try some "frencken cellocol" or a simmular product like "bona mix and fill" these are products used for parket flooring and are absolutely great for filling small holes and cracks. You just cover, for example, the hole tabletop with it and then sand it flush. I use them for all my furniture, clients love it, it makes your furniture stand out.
Thank you, those products look great. I never say anything like that around here. I check and it'S not available here in America... It'S unfortunate, and I guess it's the kind of product that you can't bring with you in your luggage...
I like your video so much
Very cool tipps, I like it a lot. Especially all the tipps in here, thank you!
If you fill a small screw hole with wood filler, can you put a new screw into the wood very close to the filled in hole?
most probably the wood filler will crack, you should put the screw in and then fill the hole
@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker - OK - thank you.
I really appreciate your video and time.
This was a big help to me. Thank you.
Definitely like tips in the woodshop! If you enjoyed it, why not make more?
Very practical demonstrations - thank you!
I like them, I would love to see some with the thought process behind using different joints/joinery methods.
Wow. Thank you so much. Trying to repair excessive tacks holes in wood chair before upholstering.
I will have an upcoming episode fixing chairs :))) And you're confirming what I say at the beginning:
If you're a woodworker you'll have 2 things that you won't be able to avoid in your life; paying your taxes and fixing chairs
I work at a cabinet shop and I have to say that the best way to fill cracks and small holes is glue and wood dust. This is a suggestion for your lacquer filler, you can melt and mix different colors together to get the color you want.
I never mixed my sticks, but it'S a great idea Thanks
Thanks for the video and the insights into wood repair. I enjoy these types of videos. Happy New Year.
Great video Alain!
I think ceder is difficult compared to other denser and darker woods to do small "fix" on. Find plugs to be best option.
Great video as always.
This is very informative and the validation process is scientific. Excellence. Thank you.
thank you
Great Info Alain. A few there that I was not aware of. Big Thanks
It was a fantastic test. I only use wood dust and glue for smaller repairs if the piece is not stained. The big holes I extend with a router bit into squares and then plug them.
Yes using wood plug was the best result, but still, no miracle
Great. Expertise and humility
Very informative video - thank you Alain!
Love this type of video!!!!!! Please more tips and tricks.
Thank you for the excellent tips and the plus/minus comparisons. Very helpful!
I really enjoyed this video!
Excellent video, very informative and helpful, great job, congratulations.
if I mix epoxy with saw dust and fill holes in my door frame will I be able to drill new holes because the screw holes are split and door keeps coming off
just need a little advice so I can fix this 🙂
I would be concern that the epoxy would crack it's quite hard. I would just glue a wooden plug, drill pilot holes and re-screw the hinge
@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker now why didn't I think of that , great idea
thanks for the advice 🙂
How is your video this well edited?!
It's because I used to be a news TV editor
Checkout my title "What I do for a living"
If I use wood filler to fill in cracks will it strength the wood?
No, if you want to strengthen a wood crack you'll have to fill it with epoxy
This was incredibly informative and helpful. Thanks!
Very interesting Alain. I have used many of your tips and "fixes" on my projects.
your investment in time was worth it you just gained a subscriber :) I love the story about your dads tools ect, I almost only use old tool for that reason
Have a great day people :)
Thank you, my subscribers number is stagnant, but receiving a comment like your is worth the low subscribing
Very helpful, Alain! I don't do much finishing per se, but when I do I try to use material from the actual damaged area, mixed with clear epoxy or CA-glue. As you pointed out, its difficult to get a perfect match but, for me, close enough is good enough. Thanks much!!
We always learn from you. Thanks
Excellent video the most honest well put together video
Can you screw into the hole filled with epoxy. Will it hold a heavy door?
I wouldn't do it. Epoxy is quite hard it might just break like glass. Instead you can use epoxy to glue a piece of wood, and epoxy will fill all the gap if they're gaps to fill
Thankyou for this fantastic video.
Seems like the only solution is to place screws between the grain and plug with the same material.
That's what I needed to know and that's what I'll do.
It's not easy plugging a hole, like I showed, I'm glad I was a little help
Will the iron method work with laquered wood, too?
It should.But this work best on raw wood, this way you're sure that no humidity will seep under the finish.
@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker Thank you for answering. Ok, I'll just try if it works. I think I can't make it worse 😁
I like this and all your videos
Brill video. Thank you so much for all the detailed information
Thank you for this. Very helpful.
Thank you mom ami! Any tips help me!
Thanks for this video! Lots of knowledge.
Great video!
Great vid
Very nice videos, tips of the trade make great content! Thanks
Thank you! The steaming trick was great.....and completely new to me!
This was a great video! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the video. Gotta fill some holes myself.
Merci Alain! I really appreciate the thoroughness of the video! On the same piece! With and without finish! I also get my best results with the plug cutter! But I'll look into laquer sticks for smaller fixes. I've never used them. Do you fill the wholes after staining, so you can better match the color?
I try to find the colour that would better match the finish piece, because the lacquer sticks don't change the finish colour. It's why they are sold in several colours. As you can see Lee valley sells 12 different colours (www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=20071&cat=1,190,42997,42999) maybe other colours can be found elsewhere I don't know. All mine come from my father stack...
Your video was great, as always!
Great video! Thank you
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Really good info, please do more
Love this video!! Great job!
This video is very helpful, thank you. You sound a little bit like Grover too
Dude fantastic information more please
Very good and truthful thank you for the alternate not matching looks better 👍
Very nice video I really like it and teach me new things
This is exactly what I wanted to see. Thx
Great work buddy
Hi Alain. I think these kind of videos are truely helpful. But: where is the intro? :-)
As far as the woodfilling goes, I mostly use sawdust since its the easiest to come by. Lets face it: you have to sand the wood eventually :-) Only one concern with it. I found, that after drying, the type of woodglue here in Germany "shrinks" alot, not filling the whole 100%. Never used titebond and such since its hard to find them here. Did you notice the same? Whats the solution in your opinion? Change the ratio of dust to glue?
Thanks alot in advance, best wishes and a happy new year to you and your family,
Attila
Thank you, I was not sure about this type of episode so I let go of the opening, but it look strange.. .At least when I was editing it :)
I I never saw titebond shrink but the colour is always too dark. I also noticed that the dust ratio just makes the glue turn into paste it doesmn't affect that much the colour. It's one of the reason I filled 3 holes each time with the same filler but with different quantity. Unless it's just a small dent let's face it; any repair will show.