Touch Up Kits for Wood Furniture Finishing.

Touch-up is the correction to revise or repair some minor problem in the furniture product. It is usually carried in the furniture factory at the end of the production process to handle the small imperfectness in the product. The finishing touch-up can be done at the end of the finishing process. A touch-up is also needed at the packing to correct some finishing damaged in furniture products before it is packed. Touch-ups are sometimes done in a furniture store or show room. The furniture product can be defect or damaged since the improper handling and if the problem is not too bad, then we may fix them with touch up process. Touch-ups, of course, will only be able to fix the small defects; the furniture with bad damage has to be fixed at the furniture manufacturer or the woodworking shop.

Now, many touch-up finishing kits have been provided by the finishing material industry to help the finishing industry. But we need skilled people to do the touch process. The touch-up is such a painting job that needs accuracy and patience. But however, with the available finishing touch-up kits, many small defects can be fixed with less effort. With the proper material and technique, many minor problems can be fixed without having to be sent back to the finishing process, which is costly, laborious, and time-consuming.

Some of the ttouch-upkits in the wood furniture finishing.

• Touch up markers.

It is a touch-upkit that is very easy to be used but helps a lot to fix the color problem at the small part. It is a marker that is specially designed to color the light color or the uncolored part. TA touch-upmarker can be easily used to address corners or edges that were rubbed off or peeled off due to the sanded trough or rubbed trough during the finishing process. The marker also works to fix the light color sbecauseof the friction and impact during handling.

The marker can also be used in the finishing pprocessto ccolorthe light part of the finishing because of uneven stain absorption, such as putty mark or glue mark. TTouch-upmarkers iareavailable in various colors according to many finishing ccolors

 ttouch-upmarker

How to apply the touch-up marker.

Choose the marker with the best suit according to the color finishing in repair. Then paint the marker on the light part until it blends and well mixes with the finishing color. Make sure that we portray good and neat paint. Markers that are too thick and smudged will leave an ugly appearance. Wipe the mark with a cloth or hand to smooth when he is still wet to reduce the thickness of the marker if needed. When the marker is dry, the marker can still be thinned by rubbed off with steel wool. We may need to do some trick to make the touch well camouflaged with the finishing overall look.

• Fill-in stick.

It is a kind of putty that can be applied to sealer, coating, or top coat layer. FA fill-instick is a kind of wax putty that is easy to be cut, shaped, and inserted to fill the hole, crack, or gap. The fill-in stick is available in various colors and can be selected according to the finishing colors.

 Fill-in stick

How to apply the ffill-instick:

Select a stick with the right color; make sure it is well blended with the finishing color. Insert the stick to fill in the gaps, cracks, or holes. We can use a small knife to insert the stick, and cutting at the top of the stick is to flatten the surface at the finishing layer. Some scuff sanding can be done to resurface the stick.
Fill in is applied on the sealer and top coat layer and is usually followed by another layer of coating application: sealer, top coat, or paint. The fill-instick without another coating layer may be obvious since the uneven gloss with the overall finishing surface. It can be used to fix the inside and unexposed parts.

• Burnt in stick.

It is the material used to fill holes and cracks as well as fill in sticks. it will blend better with the finish surface, but it requires heat to be melted and applied. Burnt in stick is available in various colors and equipped with a device for heating and melting the stick. The tool used is a small metal blade fitted with electric heating (such as a solder in the electronic shop). The solder is heated to melt the stick and insert it into the gaps, holes, or cracks. This stick requires a relatively more difficult process, but when he properly applied, he would produce a better match finishing look.

How to apply the burnt in stick. 
 
Choose the appropriate color and heat the soldering tool. Place the stick at the hole, gap, or crack, then use the heat solder tip to melt the stick and fill holes. Flatten the fill stick surface with the tool at this burnt stick still in the liquid state. And let the burned stick cool and harden.
When it is cold and hhardened wwe can still flatten the surface by ssandingthe uneven surface. The flat and even gloss can be created by rubbing the whole finish surface or recoat with another layer of top coat.