I have a wood moulding with a matt laminated dark red fininsh to it. As usual, it has been cut and trimmed fine and (as far as I was concerned!) accurately - but having pinned it together, there are 2 corners with slight gaps where the mitres are not quite coming together flush. It's only by a small amount but still, I believe, visible.
My issue is that if I use the normal method of filling in with sawdust, as it is a dark red laminated finish on the wood, the sawdust makes the space even more visible. If I just use a little PVA wood glue, this also has the same effect.
Any ideas on how to best do this?
I haven;t yet got into using pens/paints to touch up certain areas of the frame as I have not had the need as yet, but perhaps this is an option someone knows about? I still didn;t think that it could be done this way when dealing with a laminated finish, but let me know what you think!
Many thanks as always for any help you might have for me!
Joining laminated wood moulding and there's a tiny gap!
Re: Joining laminated wood moulding and there's a tiny gap!
Without having seen the offending moulding........ 
You might get a better result using a filler wax such as the Liberon Gilt Cream. There is a Mahogany-type colour which might blend in on a small gap. You can always teak the colour if need be by mixing in another colour. This filler is quite runny on a new jar, but to get a good fill on a bigger gap, scoop a bit out the jar and leave it a while until the solvent has evaporated a bit and it becomes like putty which you can mould.
This type of moulding is a pain to fill. The best you can hope for is to lessen the visual impact of the gap rather than do a perfect fill.
It may be that you can lose the gaps (on future frames anyway) by tweaking the Morso left fence. Depends where the gaps are.
You might get a better result using a filler wax such as the Liberon Gilt Cream. There is a Mahogany-type colour which might blend in on a small gap. You can always teak the colour if need be by mixing in another colour. This filler is quite runny on a new jar, but to get a good fill on a bigger gap, scoop a bit out the jar and leave it a while until the solvent has evaporated a bit and it becomes like putty which you can mould.
This type of moulding is a pain to fill. The best you can hope for is to lessen the visual impact of the gap rather than do a perfect fill.
It may be that you can lose the gaps (on future frames anyway) by tweaking the Morso left fence. Depends where the gaps are.
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Re: Joining laminated wood moulding and there's a tiny gap!
Thank you very much - I had a feeling it was going to be a case of using something like that, but not having had to do anything like that as yet, I'm grateful for the advice!
p.s. would love to adjust my morso if i had one, but as I am just starting out, I'm a mitre saw and trimmer kind of gal! This makes perfect joins even more of a headache!
p.s. would love to adjust my morso if i had one, but as I am just starting out, I'm a mitre saw and trimmer kind of gal! This makes perfect joins even more of a headache!
Re: Joining laminated wood moulding and there's a tiny gap!
hahaha... That's how I learned to fill gaps. 
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Re: Joining laminated wood moulding and there's a tiny gap!
Hi PFBLS
I had a similar problem a while ago and thought I would try fiddling about with coloured pencils.
What I did was cut a small piece of the chosen coloured pencil crush in to the smallest bits possible then mix a bit of PVA glue then fill the small offending gap.
It worked a treat, bonus being colored pencils only cost pennys I have dozens of different colours now . The thing is you buy certain colour fillers which are fairly expensive use it once then it sits on the shelf for a month of Sundays.
Jon
I had a similar problem a while ago and thought I would try fiddling about with coloured pencils.
What I did was cut a small piece of the chosen coloured pencil crush in to the smallest bits possible then mix a bit of PVA glue then fill the small offending gap.
It worked a treat, bonus being colored pencils only cost pennys I have dozens of different colours now . The thing is you buy certain colour fillers which are fairly expensive use it once then it sits on the shelf for a month of Sundays.
Jon
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Re: Joining laminated wood moulding and there's a tiny gap!
Hi pfbls,
I have an assortment of oil pastels and crayons in various colours which I use on coloured mouldings. Do you have a supplier code ref? I am struggling to visualise the moulding.
Depending on the finish, when using some wax type fillers, you may find that the area you put the filler becomes quite glossy! usually this can be corrected with a careful wipe with some meths... but check first
I have an assortment of oil pastels and crayons in various colours which I use on coloured mouldings. Do you have a supplier code ref? I am struggling to visualise the moulding.
Depending on the finish, when using some wax type fillers, you may find that the area you put the filler becomes quite glossy! usually this can be corrected with a careful wipe with some meths... but check first