Speeddemon651
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I recently had a marble bookend fall off a shelf and hit a wood display prop I have my by office adding 3 new dents. After a week of thinking about, I decided to try to steam them out.
2 of 3 of the dents were quite deep and were very noticeable with jagged edges, the 3rd being much smaller. I faintly remembered something about being able to pull dents out of wood using steam and after a quick google search and 2 articles later, I was heating up my typical household iron up to try it.
Link below to one of the articles I found helpful: (my results were about 90% of the sample shown)
http://ewibe.com/this-awesome-way-of-getting-dents-out-of-wood-is-nothing-short-of-magic/
After about an hour of several passes of soaking water into each dent then steaming it back out, they are easily 90% better. They are defiantly noticeable but with a slight sanding and varnish, I would say almost undetectable.
I'll try to see if I can post before and after pictures in the next day or so.
2 of 3 of the dents were quite deep and were very noticeable with jagged edges, the 3rd being much smaller. I faintly remembered something about being able to pull dents out of wood using steam and after a quick google search and 2 articles later, I was heating up my typical household iron up to try it.
Link below to one of the articles I found helpful: (my results were about 90% of the sample shown)
http://ewibe.com/this-awesome-way-of-getting-dents-out-of-wood-is-nothing-short-of-magic/
After about an hour of several passes of soaking water into each dent then steaming it back out, they are easily 90% better. They are defiantly noticeable but with a slight sanding and varnish, I would say almost undetectable.
I'll try to see if I can post before and after pictures in the next day or so.
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