How do you repair a high gloss scratch?

[mauied1101]

Question for anyone handy -

I have a Michael Dixon humi (second most love of my life). Damn cat put a little scratch in it - on the lid, which only I can see. It's coated in a polyester high gloss. Any ideas on how to seal it/fix it? Called a violin & piano shop - it'd cost me a LOT to repair it.

Much appreciated.

[Bassfever]

This may sound weird but ya might want to call a boat shop. They might be able to tell ya how to wet sand a small scratch out or rubbing compound. Just a guess but may be worth a call.

[nhcigarfan]

Here's my opinion. I've done this with a coffee table but never a humidor. The coffee table was a little less refined than your average humidor but it should work fine.

If you really want to make it look like new is get a couple of sheets of really fine sand paper. Get some paper, starting at around 400 grit wet/dry, but do it dry, and slowly sand the entire top, brining the total top layer down to the bottom of the scratch. Then clean with a tack cloth, then to the entire top again with 600 grit wet/dry. Do it dry again, if you do it wet the water could seep into the lower layers of poly.
This time remove any particles with a compressed air, you can get a can of it at a computer store for cleaning keyboards and such, then get use a real high quality poly, make sure when you buy it you tell them it's for furniture and not floors and put on a layer, let dry for however many hours the can says and assess. Most likely you should hit it with another coat, but don’t sand it this time.


Edit - I search and found a place to order the 600 3M paper, I didn't look but they probably have the 400 also.

http://hobbypeople.net/gallery/507467.asp

[Bkcloud114]

This is gonna sound kinda crazy....... Olive Oil..... I have hard wood floors, the guy who did my floors told me that if I got a small scratch in the floor, take a small drop of Olive Oil and coat the scratch with it.... wipe off the excess...... works all the time on my floors for small scratches, I don't know if it will work with the humi...... good luck !!

[mauied1101]

Thanks everyone for your advice. Greatly appreciate it. Tried the olive oil - and you know what - I can't see it anymore. I can still feel it so sooner or later I might do the sanding/coating - but I'm satisfied for now.

Cheers and thanks again.

[Bkcloud114]

[Kenyth]

The only way to permanently remove it, leaving it like new, is the sand, clean, and finish job. A fair amount of work and if you are that concerned with results, I'd let a professional shop do it. But why bother with this much work for a scratch? Wood furniture will eventually get scratched. There's just no avoiding it. Accept it, polish it, and smoke a cigar.

Polishing compounds are your best and easiest bet to hide the scratch.

[nhcigarfan]

The only way to permanently remove it, leaving it like new, is the sand, clean, and finish job. A fair amount of work and if you are that concerned with results, I'd let a professional shop do it. But why bother with this much work for a scratch? Wood furniture will eventually get scratched. There's just no avoiding it. Accept it, polish it, and smoke a cigar.

Polishing compounds are your best and easiest bet to hide the scratch.

Yep, over the weekend my son got mad and threw a die-cast match box car across the room, it skip across the top of the sofa table, scratched it, and into the side of my desk top and took a little chunk out and left a scratch.

Screw it. I not not fixing it. I have two more boys coming, they're due in about 2 months so that means basically everything I own is screwed.

BJ's wholesale had a nice 120 qt. cooler. I'm upgrading.

[mauied1101]

Yep, over the weekend my son got mad and threw a die-cast match box car across the room, it skip across the top of the sofa table, scratched it, and into the side of my desk top and took a little chunk out and left a scratch.

Screw it. I not not fixing it. I have two more boys coming, they're due in about 2 months so that means basically everything I own is screwed.

BJ's wholesale had a nice 120 qt. cooler. I'm upgrading.

Nice... actually, for all my non-gloss wood furniture , I purchased those wood markers at Bed Bath & Beyond. Amazing how it makes it look like it almost-didn't-have-an-accident.

Congrats on the twins! Condolences on the furniture!