Unless you pay your wood furniture with tatted doilies or cloth placemats, daily living triggers scratches and nicks in wooden end tables, coffee tables or additional wood furniture. The deepness of the scratch or nick decides the method needed to remove it from the furniture. Surface scratches on the finish are the quickest to mend, while deeper scratches all around the piece demand an entire removal of the finish to repair the damage.

Shallow Scratches

When just the finish is scratched on a nice piece of wood furniture, however, the color beneath the scratch remains the same, wipe the area with a clean cloth to remove any debris. A bit of clear nail polish dabbed across the scratch can remove the scratch. After it’s dry, lightly sand the treated area to even out the surface with 600-grit sandpaper. Buff the surface with a paste wax to fill out the repair.

Enormous Scratches

A single large scratch across the surface makes the furniture seem, but to restore it to some like-new condition, you have several alternatives. Fill in the scratch with a felt-tip mark matched to the colour of the stain, or dip a cotton-tipped rod into coffee grounds and lightly dab the scratch. A eyebrow pencil in the perfect color or a wax crayon performs exactly the identical trick. When you’re satisfied, apply paste wax to the whole surface to complete the repair.

Scratches That Gouge

When scrapes gouge the wood and leave little hillocks bordering the scratch, level the surface by apply 600-grit sandpaper across the hillocks. When flat, apply a wax rod coloured to match the stain to the raw wood. Color it until it matches with the stain on the wood. Scrape across the surface of the wax with a credit card to remove wax. Insert a coat of paste wax across the repaired area, feathering it over the rest of the surface.

When Nothing Else Works

In case the damage covers the whole surface of the wood, you likely need to strip it, sand it, reapply a stain and finish coating. It all depends on the sort of wood furniture that you have. Wood veneer surfaces don’t take to sanding nicely; you can sand through the veneer entirely since dentures are extremely thin. But on solid wood pieces, apply a paint-stripping merchandise to remove the finish. After stripping, sand with medium-grit sandpaper to remove any remaining pieces of stain. Go on the surface with a light-grit sandpaper to smooth it. Apply the stain and let it dry as recommended on the product tag. Apply polyurethane, varnish or a simple glue wax to provide sheen to the wood’s surface.

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