Making wood filler

Mix glue and the sawdust from the project your gluing. works great! But you may have a hard time getting it to take stain.

Rich

Go with the shellac and sawdust. Mix it fairly thin and let it set up before you sand it off and decide if you need another application. Sanding prior to finishing will remove the shellac and "expose" the sawdust allowing it to take a finish. It will be darker than the surrounding wood but should "tone" nicely.

Good luck Rob

It's white oak, so it will probably be painted. No worries.

John

EvoDawg wrote:

shellac probably will be too shiny. I would try colored wax fillers. The wax is hard and is mineral based [ozerkite ? spelling?] so finishes will take over it. Available at most finishing supply houses in a myriad of colors. fill the voids and rub out with oooosteel wool with mineral spirits if necessary.

-- mike hide

I have added corn starch to counter the darkening effect. Sand a couple test patches to get the mix right, but it's often close to equal parts with the wood dust. Bandsaw dust works great.

Jim

Use hide glue.

I have taken sawdust from various woods and mixed it into a plain plasticwood, but only to fill very small nicks and imperfections.

Dave