Most of my students last week at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking are much stronger than am I. They cranked those K-bodies down … probably more than need be to close the baselines of their Anarchist’s Tool Chest dovetails. And because we used shims over the tailboards (so the clamp heads weren’t seating on the ends of the pins, instead of pulling things tight together), we were left with some dents. I said I’d show them how to remove those…then ran out of time. So here ya go: a quick video of me using an iron (which happens rarely) to fix all but one of the dents (missed one – oops).
I own an iron. It has globs of hide glue all around the edges.
I want to know the make and model of the industrial strength sprayer! Dress-up for me is starched and ironed shirts, and I do a lot of sewing/quilting which involves an iron. If you never put water in the iron and use a sprayer instead it never spits nasty dark lumps on your light fabric (all irons have a sensor, they never spit on darks).
That’s just the smallest size pump up weed sprayer, available at most garden centres, probably harbour freight and maybe at your local big box hardware store.
funny coincidence, just yesterday I posted a video on Instragram of me steaming out dents from a cabinet door I accidentally knocked off my bench. You can fix quite a lot of damage using this technique.
If you watch the video, you’ll notice I’ve added the following presets to my iron: Edge Banding, Veneer Tape and Flexi-Felt. All irons should come this way.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8GLF1_IYF3/
How’d you know I have an uncle Bob. Not kidding
Good as gold. Right you are. Fanny’s your aunt. Bob’s your uncle!
Spend some time in NZ have you?
a couple weeks ago my wife texted me while i was at work, “do we have an iron?”
me: “yes”
wife: “where is it?”
me: “look in the big metal drawers in my shop”
when i got home, she said she found, used, and put it back. oh how things have changed from the days of Ward and June Cleaver
Hi Megan,
Have you ever tried this on a piece that had finish on it?
Twenty plus years ago I was sitting on my sofa noodling with my acoustic guitar and my then three year old son wanted to watch a Disney movie so to get my attention he knocked on the lower bout of my guitar with the VHS case and left a nice little dent.
I smile every time I see it but I have recently been thinking about trading the guitar in and I have been wondering, literally since it happened, about removing it using this technique. The finish is a thin satin nitrocellulose lacquer.
Just curious if you have ever tried to raise a dent on a finished piece or know of anyone who has tried.
Thanks.
Patrick
I have not…and that would be a hard one to test. Sorry to be of no help whatsoever.
No worries. Thanks for responding.
try asking a local violin luthier who will either work at or more likely own the local violin shop.
That’s a good thought. Thanks.
I’m in the habit of saying “And Bob’s your son’s uncle” because my brother Bob is my son’s uncle.