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Welcome back.
We're with our home repair expert, Bruce Johnson.
And we're going to restore an old cradle.
Yes.
Yeah, very typical of most furniture you
find in your home.
Not just that it's old, but it's got lots of nicks and
scratches on it.
We don't want to refinish it.
We want to make it look nicer.
All right.
And how do we do that?
We're going to start by taking care of
these nicks and scratches.
You can see it's got a worn spot right there.
Well, instead of getting out the entire can of stain, you
can get out a stain marker.
Fill in that missing area real gently.
And then I'm going to follow you behind you with a rag.
And the nice thing is it comes in about
eight different colors.
So if you don't get it right the first time, you can just
switch colors a little bit.
That looks great.
Yeah.
Now another problem we often run into are nail holes that
haven't been filled.
The stain marker doesn't do us any good there.
But we're going to use a wood putty that's already tinted to
the color of the wood.
Just take your finger and put it on there, rub off the
excess, and the hole disappears.
Now, what if you've got a hole that is this big, though.
Here's a half inch hole that the wood putty
couldn't fill that.
It's just too soft.
So we're going to use a stainable wood filler.
And then you sand it lightly, as I've done on this piece
already, and you can see there we've got
our sanded spot there.
OK.
However, it doesn't quite match.
Tip of the day here.
Take your utility knife and cut actual marks in the
hardened filler.
This is going to imitate the pores and the grain line, so
that when you come back a little bit later with your
stain and your finish-
It will disappear.
-that spot's going to look like real wood.
And once again you've helped us out.
Good to see you again, Bruce.
Thank you.
And that's today's tip.