Thread: Weird marks

G'day Ticcer and welcome to the forums.

I have seen and unfortunately experienced the same sort of marks - as your mate suggests it is not alive - you will find that you have a wood chip eg. from a drill bit etc on the board/bench and when one board is slid over the other you get your marks. I have also been caught out before with el-cheapo roller stands when the super thin chrome on the roller rusts and you roll a soft board across.

Provided no actual wood has been removed your scratch/dent can be mostly recovered by covering the scratch with a damp cloth, leave for a few minutes and then place a steam iron on the cloth [only on the cloth and keep it moving]. This will cause the wood fibres to swell which often recovers dings back to normal - it will need some fine sanding of course.

Hope it helps,
Bob

Hey Ticcer,

Like Bob said, its a B*tch when that happens, even after you brush down the assembly area and the give it a blow with the Air gun, that sort of thing still happens, and usually on the show side or the special bit, The iron trick should work

HazzaB

It will be a wood chip or glue dob on the bench, possibly the latter if you've blown the bench down. Always cover your bench when gluing up, and give it a light scrape down every so often (where do those little b@#$%^s come from?). If the fibres aren't broken, the steam trick will work well - don't be afraid of plenty of heat.

as has been said it is a chip or stone between the boards or some such thing, a real mongrel when you get it to a finished stage! been there, done that!

You just have to be extra careful when laying your boards down, a small nail or something similar can easily cause your problem. The iron trick should work. Good luck with it.

Thanks a lot for the replies. Looks like I'll have to take some precautions. Thank for the input and solutions.

T

If the fibres have been broken (doesn't look like yours have), you may need to carefully scrape the damage out.

When I was teaching at an evening college at a high school, some sweet child had driven a nail into the inside of a vice and bent it over. One of my students found it with a nice blackwood box she was making.