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Mixing Color Powder for Wood Scratch Repair

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Summary: Mixing powder with liquid for scratch repair. Learn about fixing scratches in wood furniture in this free home carpentry video.

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Curtis W. Martin is a third-generation antiques restorer. He began working in his father's furniture repair business when he was 10 years old, and hasn't been able to get the sawdust...read more

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"Okay, again, what we're doing now is we've got our assorted colors out here. We're trying to look and compare. We've got one more box we may need to also get into. So we're going to bring them all out here. We're going to start taking some of the dry powder and start mixing it with the liquid, liquid lacquer, and that becomes a stain in and of itself. We're going to add just a touch of red. You want to be careful of these colors. A little bit goes a long way. And then we're just going to gently, with the grain again, start covering up the divot. This is what's called your base color we?re trying to get a foundation. And you just want to put on just as sparingly as you can. Keep the area small. Once you get that in there, and it looks good, and you kind of blend the color, you want to stop."

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