grain tearout

Re: grain tearout

Steve Wargo

>Plane it or Scrape it again and then finish it again. The Whole surface. Filler on Oak will look horrible, and I think the best option will be to start over. The other option is to plane only the area affected and then finish the area with a lighter tone of stain or dye. Then use a thin fanned artist brush to blend in the patched area. If you take your time it can be successful. Hope this helps.

Re: grain tearout

Tony Z.

>Thanks Steve, pretty much what I thought I'd be doing (also considered sanding). My issue with using a filler is that the tabletop would look much different than the rest of the unit.

I still don't know how the tearout made it past my eye! Probably a combo of increasingly bad eyesight and too many hours. I could have lived with a bit of tearout in a more discrete location, but not in the "money" spot!

Inlay?

Derek

>Can you inlay a pattern into the table top that would hide the problem?

Re: grain tearout

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>This is not original to me, but I find that if I get lots of light, at an angle, it helps with detecting surface flaws. Also, I find that bright sunlight helps sometimes. The lighting experts will probably say that some sort of special bulb would help, too.

And, of course, the wetting trick.