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prefinished panels with dents

3/2/20       
Bob  Member

Hi I'm a cabinet maker I was wondering if anybody could give me some advice on this.
Just finishing up this job withprefinished panels called shinoki.
There are few doors with dents in them.  Panels are a flat UV finish.  I'm thinking if the dent could be filled with some clear material and then sanded to a mat it might pass.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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3/2/20       #2: prefinished panels with dents ...
cabinetmaker

Have you tried steaming them out ?

Behlen fill stick should be considered

3/2/20       #3: prefinished panels with dents ...
rich c.

Doubt if you can steam through a UV finish, but I've got nothing.

3/2/20       #4: prefinished panels with dents ...
cabinetmaker

Our installers help supers out with steaming on prefinished doors.

I have steamed a few dents with uv.

Pic doesn’t seem to be wood with uv

3/3/20       #5: prefinished panels with dents ...
Bob  Member

it's definitely wood veneer on mdf.  I think it's red oak then bleached then stained.  I filed through a few areas during the course of this job.  I've taken out dents on raw wood before using denatured alcohol then lighting it.  Can you please give me a quick rundown and how you steam?

3/3/20       #8: prefinished panels with dents ...
Jim Clark  Member

I use a regular iron over a wet rag.
Works pretty good.

3/3/20       #9: prefinished panels with dents ...
rescraft

If you can get one of those "eraser guards" that were used in the old drafting days, it might limit the area to be steamed, to just the dent and not the surrounding area.

3/5/20       #10: prefinished panels with dents ...
dan shaf

To have best control with where you steam, use a soldering iron instead of a regular iron.

Here's a technique that often works, sometimes not, sometimes only just adequately. Take on of the clear wax fill sticks, use a burn in knife to melt it into your dpression/dent. Take a flat adge razor blade - the painters' blade, not a utility knife blade. Wrap a piece of masking tape on the top, this will be your "handle". Heat it up with a flame. Use this hot blade to scrape your wax fill level. Dust on Mohawk's clear satin precat. Wait for it to flash and dust on more, do this a few times. Lightly scuff with a Scotch-Brite.

Another method to level a wax fill is to take a piece of copy machine paper and wrap it around a hard, flat (really flat with no bumps) block. Before you do this paper/block step try to get the wax fill as level as possible. Use a razor bladfe or the edge of a credit card. Note: to use the credit card edge you hold the plastic at a shallow angle to the surface (an oblique angle) and you move the card in small concentric circles to "sneak up" on the edge of the fill, or else there's a tendency to pull the fill out. Then, with the paper wrapped tightly to the block, rub over the fill, press somewhat hard. The idea is to create friction to heat the fill. Last step, again, Mohawk aerosol precat satin sheen, dust it on.

Why satin sheen for a flat sheen surface? If you use flat or dead flat, even if the sheen might read the same when measured with a sheenmeter, it shows up flat -- too flat - from some viewing angles. You want a blend in, not a spot spray that says, "Look at me."

3/7/20       #12: prefinished panels with dents ...
Bob  Member

thanks for the tips. I will try


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