Repair gouge on wooden table edge

Hi. I've got a wooden table that's about 20 years old and is in reasonably good condition except for a gouge about 1 cm across on one edge (top left of image).

Your best bet might be to steam-treat it with a steam iron, which swells the wood fibres... never actually tried it myself but I'm told it can give excellent results

David

Get some woodfiller, it comes in different colours and pine is available everywhere. It blends in quite nicely once set and sanded down....you may have to sand the entire table down and give it all a coat of clear varnish, my guess is that it would come up like new.

I'd use a Liberon Wax stick. Easy to just rub it across the damaged area and, unlike some fillers, you know in advance how good a colour match it'll be

Steaming good. Wet, wrung-out tea towel, hot iron - let the steam sizzle for a good few seconds - repeat as necessary until you've lifted out all you can.

Works best on surface dings and compression type damage.

If it still needs filling, Brummer is the product used by most cabinet makers:

Brummer is basically clay, which IMO is not really flexible enough for an exposed edge. It would probably behave like a loose knot.

will wax work in a dent?? I can understand a scratch being filled with it

Fair point.

Can't you plane the edge down a bit and re-form the radius. Then sand the whole table and give it some sort of varnishing. It looks like solid wood and that it would cope.

On that theme you could run a router around the edge to create a new profile. Not sure of the OP's circumstances though.

OK, thanks. I'll order a couple of sticks and give it a go.