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   Guest_ | Mar 08, 1999 11:15pm | #1

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   I use regular white glue, since it sets slower. Put a lot of dust into the mixture, and varnish over the patch after staining and before its used. I use the varnish to hold the thing in, that way I get more dust and it hold stain better.

   Good Luck.

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   Ken_Russell | Mar 10, 1999 10:29am | #2

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   Hey, There,
   The guys that do my wood floors for me mix clean sanding dust with a sort of lacquer product from a company called Glitzen, or maybe it's Glitzy, that's made for this application. They just mix a small batch up, use a putty knife to trowel it into the cracks and flaws, and then sand the floor again with 100 or 120 before they apply the finish, which is usually a product called "Street Shoe", a water based catalytic product. Ken

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   Guest_ | Mar 11, 1999 05:30am | #3

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   Yup, my floor expert trowels on a sawdust and laquer mixture all over the whole floor (yes, trowels it on all over with a 12" drywall knife, darndest thing I ever seen) between 1st and 2nd sanding. I used white glue and sawdust once on an oak floor, it turned black when the finish went on, good thing there was a big chair that was going over that patch.

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   Guest_ | Mar 11, 1999 06:05am | #4

   *I have always used paste wood filler. This is not to be mistake for Wooddough or Plastic Wood type products. Paste wood filler is used to fill the grain on an open grain wood. Get it from a good paint store. Your home warehouse type store will probably have never heard of it. When Watco made a penetrating floor finish I would mix it half and half with the paste filler and then add the dust to get a workable consistency. I work it with a 6" drywall knife and then wipe down. When this is thoroughly cured almost any kind of top coat can be applied. I have done this with ordinary Watco oil. The paste wood filler needs some kind of thinning to allow for the sanding dust.

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   Guest_ | Mar 11, 1999 07:15am | #6

   *I don't know this lacquer technique, but the old fashioned way was shellac and sawdust. Same principle. never had anything but disasters with white glue.

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   Brad_A._Moehl | Mar 11, 1999 07:15am | #5

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   > old timers used sawdust and sanding dust to float the surface of a new floor, does anyone have experience and advice on how it is done, and what type of glue to use?