re: pallet wood good or bad?

Madts and Keifer, both great ideas. Too late now but next time.

And that reminds me of doing some cabinet repair in one of the buildings I work at. There was a problem with a narrow cabinet. The horizontal pulls would hit the wall on one side and the microwave on the other and neither door would open fully. Nobody was willing to shell out for new doors so I turned the doors upside down and put the pulls in vertically, which allowed them to open fully. Only problem was the old holes, now at the top of the doors. I filled them with wood putty and then used these wax pencils minwax makes in different colors to match the veneer. Those holes became completely invisible after a quick wipe down with furniture polish.

Hehe… As long as I’m on the topic… In my home office, the desk top is solid oak and for the work surface I bought a glass table top from IKEA and routed the oak so the glass would sit flush. Well, as a newbie with the router, of course I took out a chunk that wasn’t supposed to be taken out. That would be a hole next to the glass. I was so upset over that screw up. It was big too – about 3/4" across. I filled it with wood filler and sanded it down thinking that it couldn’t possibly look worse than the hole. Then I remembered my cabinet repairs. I took a regular pencil and drew in the grain of the wood. After applying polyurethane to the top the hole repair almost completely disappeared. It’s camouflaged so well that nobody – even critical people – has ever pointed it out. LOL. Good save on that one.