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@Chalfie seamfil/colourfil is a good shout. Amazon have all that jazz available.

Just matching the colour up problems....if there's clear I'm on to a winner.

Konig wax fillers.

The hardwax needs melting to apply it, building up above the surface and flatting back, but is harder wearing.

Softwax can be simply rubbed on and quickly tooled to finish. But it's not as hard wearing.

Getting a colour/ shade match and then matching surface texture is the difficult part.

@Chalfie if you don't fancy a DIY on it, I've seen (barely seen) a bath repair from these.

https://www.plastic-surgeon.co.uk/furniture-repairs/laminate-and-veneer/

I'm sitting here looking from your pic to my wife's probably most treasured possession, the white ellipse table. Neck hair on end, shivers down my spine. What did you do, saw lumber on it or something?

I lost my temper and banged a piece of cutlery repeatedly.

Do that on a less valuable table next time.

https://www.toolstation.com/colorfill-worktop-installation-and-repair-kit/p97633

Just put a tasteful lamp or vase of flowers over it.

Bolted in place of course.

Had my first foray into thicknessing. This is what inadequate dust collection looks like. Oak chippings literally everywhere. fun fun fun. I have much to learn about how to use it effectively, the desk I'm making is going to end up a fair bit thinner that I had originally planned.

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Nice! I was casually looking at a thicknesser/planer the other day. I've brought probably 2 tons of rough-hewn oak with me to every house I've lived in for nearly ten years and really need to do something with it.

Major workshop envy! Looking great.

A man’s man

That's a lot of oak. You'll probably want a surface planer too, or a planer thicknesser combo machine. A standalone thicknesser isnt really designed to flatten boards, if you put them on bowed/twisted/cupped they come out the same. I flattened mine using a sled jig trick, but it's slow and a pita (but does work)

Thanks - way beyond my skill level at this stage but I'm playing a long game so imagine I've got a good decade or more still of reading/tinkering before I really put it to use.

How the hell do you have time for this?!

...the desk I'm making is going to end up a fair bit thinner that I had originally planed.

Wife and baby went to her parents house for the weekend. This is how I let off steam.

I have lots of oak worktop offcuts and want to make an extra worktop in another area of the kitchen to give us some more space.

It's hefty stuff (36mm) and will be 1000x300mm so not a small bit of wood. It's in a corner of the room so will be supported on two sides and I think I'll need a leg for the opposite corner. What's going to be the best way to fix it to the wall? Assuming it'll be too heavy for invisible mounts.

Easiest will be a batten on the wall (2x2 or something) then screw up into the worktop?

That is probably correct

looks quite a wide and thin board now - have you considered the risks of the board cupping? I learnt the hard way...
workshop looks great!

Ah, the board I think you are looking at is a bit of 12mm birch ply that I was using as an outfeed table. The oak is on the table at the back left, the boards final dimensions are 220mm wide by 25mm thick which I think should be ok but I may learn the hard way too. I'm going for a continous 650mm deep table with the grain "waterfalling", so the edges of the table top will be bevelled and glued/dowelled into the legs. I'll put a lengthways apron at the back edge as well as to prevent sagging.

We'll see, I was originally intending 30mm thick, but inexperience with the milling process has lead to 24mm final thickness. Worse come worse I'll put some stiffeners along the width underneath.

Even the big commercial machines don't collect 100% of the dust produced from a planer / thicknesser or a standalone version of the two machines. The good thing about this though is that there is very little fine dust created which is the big worry from a H&S standpoint, leaving only being hit in the eye by a chip from the machine as the big worry.

I have a dust collection attachment for mine but don't use it as it's easier to sweep up at the end of the day.

Edit. Plus this way we can give the chippings to a local who keeps horsies to use for bedding.

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