moojiefulagin Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Hi! Thought I should share this with you guys.. might come in handy. Maybe im the only one, but I always had a tough time making usable woodfiller. It would always come out of the cracks when I tried to rub it in. Heres something I just discovered. It saved a lot of time and produced great results: fill the crevice with glue. Then hold a block of the wood you want to make filler dust out of over the crack. Using a dremel with a high-grit sanding cylinder attachment, sand the wood at high speed as close as possible to the glue-filled crack. The sawdust will be stick to the wet glue. This will produce VERY fine sawdust that can be easily pressed further into the crevice if necessary. The result- a perfectly filled unnoticeable repair. I found this out when I got some chipping when routing my binding channel. Hope this helps someone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opranks612 Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Thanks! I might need to use this in my upcoming project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezerboy Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 yeah thanks too, i'm gonna be needing that in a few weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 I just mix the glue and dust and the fill. Same thing, less time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moojiefulagin Posted February 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Yeah, but where do you find the perfectly fine sawdust? It actually probably takes the same amount of time- it takes about as long to get out the dremel as it does the rest! Anyway, youre welcome. Im not a guitar building expert yet, so i try to contribute what i can! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibum5545 Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 I did this on a box I built a while back, to fill uneven corners. What I did is used clear laquer, squirted it into the crack using a small syringe, and then patted the fine sawdust onto the top. I found that it works best to store fine sawdust in a film canister, so you can just pour/tap it onto the filled cracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moojiefulagin Posted February 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 That's basically the same idea, except you need to already have the sawdust. I like the film canister idea! Ive been using ziploc bags, but the sawdust sometimes sticks to the sides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 LOL, I was wondering how many of you save your dust. I've still got some rosewood and mahogany dust left over from the last guitar...nothing is wasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibum5545 Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 Yeah, I made all my dust hand-sanding strips of maple... very time consuming. But, we did get some REALLY thin strips of maple, which can be used in their own right to fill cracks: pound them in, break them off, and sand them flat. No glue necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 I save the dust during fret-board leveling jobs. Not every spec, but I'll use a plastic credit card to scrape much of it onto a piece of thin carboard that already has a crease folded down the middle , so I can pour the dust into a small container easier. I like to have the dust in various grits too, then mix a little of all the grits when making my own filler with epoxy and saw dust. It's often good to have a lot of the more coarse pieces of sawdust, then the finer grits fill in where the more coarse pieces can't. I use film canisters too (ran out, so now it's plastic bags) But I glued one half of velcro on the canister lids, then the other velcro halves under the shelves in my tool cabinet, so the canisters hang from under the shelves, pretty much out of the way. Wish I knew of a way to make epoxy/maple filler that doesn't turn so dark from the glue soaking in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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