How to Use Yellow Glue to Fill Small Voids

As I was working on this cabinet, I found that I've got a spot here where the face frame didn’t quite close against the case. And as a result, there is just a small void right here. We’d do that but let me show you a great trick that makes it in visible repair of these small cracks like this. I'm going to use wood glue and squeeze it over the top of the opening. And then using my finger, I’m going to work it down in there so it fills that in. I do want to get the excess of the surface here.

Now on my sander, I’m going to use a 150 grits sandpaper but I’m going to intentionally turn the paper so that the dust collection holes in this paper do not line up with a dust collection holes because I want to leave the dust behind. What will happen is that as I'm sanding the dust on the surface from this oak, it’s going to mix with the glue, end up in that void, make a seamless film.

The beauty of this is that basically you’re making a homemade wood dough that has to match because it is the dust from this material that’s mixing with the glue in order to fill that bad spot so it makes it very, very seamless. If you’ve got glue on hand, you’ve always got wood dough on hand, works great on this small voids.