Wood filler - never heard the topic

[Lilwolf]

Well, I just got a new sit down cab from Donor (THANKS AGAIN).  He had started fixing some scratchs on 1/2 of it before I got it.  I sanded them down and started looking into doing the back.

after I played with it some I started getting the nack.

I was wondering if anyone ever put up anything on wood repairs?

After trying to fix parts a few times.  I feel like I have some advice.  But I'm by no means an expert.

It seems like a good guide would be useful to others... especially since you want to think about it before doing any other work.   I would have to spend days to get my stand up cab ready to be fixed up... So I just deal with it.

Anyway, I thought people might want to add their stories.

[Lilwolf]

Here is what I found.

1) Plastic wood works well.  You have to mix it up well... and take a small amount out to use.  It tries quickly so you want to keep the container closed, get small amounts and use it quick.  After a minute out of the can, it is too dry to use.

2) Try not to use to much... especially on the edges.  Why?  You probably don't want to sand that much.  And breaking it off after its fully dries can break more off then you want.

3) After about 10 minutes... you can do a little last minute shaving and molding.  I don't know if the long term effects are going to better/worse because I touched it after a few minutes before it was completely dry.  But it really helped when sculpting areas.  

3.5) After about 15 minutes I could do a quick sanding that moved a lot of stuff easily.  This was good any place I put too much.

4) Only spread in ONE direction with a putty knife.  Putting it on in one direction, then another made it peal up a little and create cracks.  It never seemed to work as well as doing it from one direction.

5) When doing an edge..  put just a little more then you need on the putty knife.  press down on the edge so that the putty just pushs over the edge and then move the putty knife back away from the edge.  Did this make sense?

6) When filling in a big big missing area (bottom corner) I removed all the extra crap... then I filled it in  with a few coats of putty.  Molding it like I mentioned before.  It seems strong... but I haven't really tested it.

7) Removing tmolding before is MUCH easier... but not necessary...

Anything else?

[Cisco Kid]

sawdust and superglue work just as well and its free (at least the sawdust is   )