[C320-list] Cabin wood , cabin sole.

[Graeme Clark]

Louis

Personally I would be wary of using a filler under the varnish on a floor that is flexible, gets wet and is walked on quite a bit. I have no specialist knowledge but suspect the filler my come loose after not very long?

A woodworking friend reports great success using a steam iron to swell the wood where the dents are and make them less obvious. I haven't tried that.

`On my interior wooden (oak) floors at home I used something called Fiddes Wood Filler Gel which is only available over here in Britain I think, but I’m sure theres a similar product on your side of the pond. It is a clear gel, smells very solvent-y, and you mix it with fine dust from a piece of the same wood to make your own perfect match wood filler. the solvent evaporates quite quickly (15 mins) leaving the filler bonded into the wood. Again I am not sure how well it would bond.  You could do the same with epoxy I guess?

Hope this helps

Graeme

On 14 Oct 2015, at 18:00, Louis spitz <aronella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Graeme,
> I was hoping for feedback about which brand of filler/stain to use under the new varnish. The veneer seems fairly thick. As I mentioned, the sole 'color' is reversed (light planks, dark filler) which I would like to modify to make more traditional (I.e., darker, even though the filler stripes would be darker still).
> Lou
> 
>> On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Graeme Clark <cg at skyflyer.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Louis
>> If you pull up the board over the bilge and look at it edge on you can see that the teak veneer is thin and the holly strips even thinner - maybe 1/16 inch or less. It takes very little sanding to get through that!
>> I had to remake one of the bilge cover boards and it was not an easy task to do it from scratch although you can buy the holly/teak ready made veneered  to plywood in 8ft x 4ft sheets. Not cheap though!
>> I stripped the remains of old varnish using a heat gun. Trouble is that doesn't remove the varnish in any dents and if folk have been walking on the sole with stones in their shoe soles there will be dents!
>> So I then used a chemical stripper to get rid of rest if old varnish
>> As per my previous post a solvent based varnish will give a deeper brown colour to the real than a water based one if that's what you are after
>> Hope this helps
>> Graeme
>> Hull 366, 1996
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from mobile: please excuse typos etc.!
>> 
>> 
>>> On 14 Oct 2015, at 14:19, Louis Spitz <aronella at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a vintage 1995 Cat 320, with an unusual cabin sole. It appears to be light wood with dark spacers. (I do know this is a veneer.) I want to strip the sole and stain it darker. What filler should I use?
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> Lou Spitz
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:15 PM, GREG SUTTON <sutt47 at msn.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know the type of wood that was used for the trim on the early 320s?  It appears to be cherry but I want to be sure before starting any repair work this winter.ThanksGreg#128Liberty
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from Outlook
>>>