Harvesting the sawdust from the workpiece the wood filler will be used on allows you to exactly match the color and so making the area where the wood filler is used as inconspicuous as possible.
Sawdust wood filler for floors.
The other ingredient in a homemade sawdust wood filler is something to hold it together.
Usually this product is water soluble.
Stop wasting your hard earned money on store bought wood fillers that don t match your project.
Don t use wood glue and dust to make filler it always dries more yellow that you think unsightly.
It will take some practice to determine how much your require but a good starting point is usually around a palm sized amount.
Make your own wood filler with sawdust wood dust gather your wood dust.
No more shopping around for colored wood filler.
This close match is achieved by using the wood itself by mixing sawdust from the same wood with a binder typically wood glue.
Step 3 sift sawdust to ensure that the wood filler is effective you must ensure that it does not contain any shavings or large pieces of wood.
When choosing sawdust to use for the wood filler it is best to select some from the same type of wood the furniture is made from.
Do it yourself wood filler is often called cabinetmaker s putty since woodworkers and fine carpenters often create their own filler to closely match a particular woodworking project.
Add the wood glue to the wood dust while mixing with your fingers or putty knife.
This filler is fast drying gives off a lot of strong fumes and is flammable.
If you are thinking about mixing a carpenter s glue then there s one thing to know beforehand.
The wood flour cement has two main strengths.
The most common homemade wood filler for hardwood floors is sawdust mixed with glue.
Why make your own wood filler.
Before mixing the sawdust with carpenter s glue remember that this water soluble product has a color of its own and gives the filler an unappealing grayish tinge clear epoxy glue is a better choice especially if you need to mold the filler around the edge of a piece of wood.
Glitza wood flour cement mixed with 80 grit wood dust that matches the wood of your floor.
The color of the sawdust.
This is where the true beauty of mixing your own wood filler comes in.
Collect fines in a container.
The glue should slowly soften the entire mixture.
I m sharing a diy wood filler recipe that s easy to make eas.
Lacquer based wood floor filler is a mixture of lacquer and very fine wood dust.
The epoxy itself lasts forever and you can mix up only as much as you need for each job so there is no waste.