Forum topic by chip73 | posted 05-22-2012 12:18 AM | 2012 views | 0 times favorited | 7 replies | ![]() |
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05-22-2012 12:18 AM |
Topic tags/keywords: question finishing Painting a bookcase and what is best practice so I don’t fill the holes with paint. Seems like dowel would work, not sure if paint would run. Looking for ideas before I try something that won’t work. -- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. |
7 replies so far
#1 posted 05-22-2012 12:26 AM |
I dont fill em and have never had a problem. |
#2 posted 05-22-2012 01:43 AM |
If I’m painting, I’m probably using a roller so it isn’t much of an issue. If necessary a Q-tip will dab out any extra paint. A neighbor once painted one of his bookcases with a brush and couldn’t get the piins in the holes. I gave him an old 1/4” drill bit and showed him how to hand twist them clean. -- Adversity doesn't build character...................it reveals it. |
#3 posted 05-22-2012 01:30 PM |
Don’t drill the holes until after you paint. Nyuk Nyuk -- Clint Searl....Ya can no more do what ya don't know how than ya can git back from where ya ain't been |
#4 posted 05-22-2012 04:18 PM |
The last time I did some, I cut a 1/4” dowel into a million pieces and stuffed one in each hole…worked very well. I should point out I was spraying the finish. I saved those dowel pieces for re use if I ever need them again. -- Our village hasn't lost it's idiot, he was elected to congress. |
#5 posted 05-22-2012 04:28 PM |
takes far less time to be careful and not fill them with paint than it does to cut a bazillion dowels, paints around them, and then get them out before the paint glues them in place. :) I usually just do the hand-twist-a-drill-bit when I’m done. Only takes a couple minutes on a big bookcase. It’s GOTTA be faster than cutting dowels, placing dowels, removing dowels. |
#6 posted 05-22-2012 04:36 PM |
Wow… I’ve been doing this for 33+ years and this has never been an issue for me. -- "Hard work is not defined by the difficulty of the task as much as a person's desire to perform it.", DS251 |
#7 posted 05-23-2012 02:54 AM |
Thanks for all the different suggestions. I too am spraying and this will be my first project spraying paint. I could just visualize paint filling in my holes. Just being a little proactive taking advantage of all the experience on LJ. -- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. |
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