Rubbing Alcohol + Heat = dent repair?

I have not tried this but have used a wet cotton cloth put over the dent and then a iron on that which will swell the wood fiber’s to bring it up to where you can sand it smooth again.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

yep I Have heard of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtsa4Sazvw

works great on bare wood, if its finished gently slice the finish with a razor blade, and use some hot water, you have to get the moisture and heat to the raw wood, on finished pieces it isnt perfect, but does pretty well,

I have used that method many times. It works great. It’s particularly useful on woods that are prone to watermarks—red oak comes to mind.
The heat from the alcohol does the trick without any residue left behind. It burns ‘clear’ so you need to be a little bit careful to keep your hand away from a flame that is hard to see.

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Am I the only one that thinks its a bad idea to intentionally light your wood on fire..?! I mean comeon… fire is fire… wood is wood… lst I checked one fuels the other…

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I saw that on a Michael Dresdner ( I think that’s his name) video. He put some drops of denatured alcohol in the dent and took a lighter and set it aflame… it burned instantly, and each time he did it it brought the fibers back up. Before that, he showed the clothes iron/water trick.

newbiewoodworker,

Did you look at the Video on YouTube by CharlesNeil?

The wood does not burn… The fire burns the alcohol, which heats any other moisture, which expands the wood, which tends to remove the dent…

Very clever… Watch the video…

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I have done it a couple of times. It works on very shallow dents.

-- Abbas, Castro Valley, CA