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Inspect and Fill Imperfections

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Flat Sanding cabinet doors. Cabinet Painting 101

What happens here

After initial sanding, position the inspection light across the door surface again at a low angle to highlight any remaining imperfections. For small nicks and dings, use a Hyde scraper or a putty knife to carefully remove raised material or smooth out minor bumps. For larger knots or deeper damage, apply Crawford's Spackle first. Once dry, sand the spackle smooth. For very small or shallow imperfections, or to top-coat larger fills, use Bondo Glazing Putty for a very smooth finish. Ensure all seams on the cabinet doors are also filled to achieve a seamless appearance.

Goal: Re-inspect the sanded surface under proper lighting to identify any remaining nicks, dings, or seams, then use appropriate fillers for repair.

Tools and materials

  • Hyde Flexible Knife Set Hyde
  • Bondo Glazing & Spot Putty (Red) Bondo

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now i'm going to take and look at my i've got all the initial sanding done and i keep a couple tools handy here because i see a few little things on my door some little imperfections kind of um a little sharp edge right here a little piece of dust got painted on in there i'm going to just scrape that off this is this light is going to show you all these little tiny things and i use a lin bite scraper to if i see anything down there's something right here down here i can use the linbide scraper to scrape it off or you can use like a putty knife to scrape it off that doesn't have sharpen it of an edge sometimes having a sharp edge is a little advantage but it's a little there got it off now i'm looking for everything i want these cabinets to be absolutely perfect now where i scrape that i'm going to re-sand that and then this door will be done now through the sanding process i see can see one i can see a little tiny nick right here that didn't stand out and i've got a little tiny a couple kind of tiny dings right here i can continue trying to sand that out of the finish i might end up ended up cutting down into the old finish cutting down into the wood which would cause me to have to prime it so i'm just going to bondo those um let that dry and then we will take and re-sand it so i'm going to vacuum this off and i'll show you i keep a battery operated vac next to me so i can just vacuum these things off and get them clean ready to be painted so once you get the sanding done you can maybe see some other stuff i see another little thing down inside here a piece of dust or something that got painted on built up so everybody's kitchens you have different lighting and so you could have somebody's kitchen that just acts just like an inspection light that would show all these imperfections and so you definitely want to get these things taken care of now i can see it looking through my light i can see a ding here ding here and looks like i got one right there i'll show you the filling the bondo glazing putty so there's a lot of different things you could put your bondo on you put it on a stir stick sometimes i like this is just a piece of cardboard and it's got a coating on the other side so it doesn't absorb the moisture out of the bondo so it doesn't dry as fast it gives you a little bit more working time but you're gonna see there's a nick right here and you can see how i just scraped it and you'll start to see it show up it's right there's a little ding right…

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