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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Clay-like "putty" has few uses...Feb 01, 2008
By Victor H. Agresti
"remodeling-guy"
Minwax Wood Putty
I've been using Minwax polyurethane varnishes, oil-based stains, and stainable wood fillers for decades. All great products. Unfortunately, this wood putty is at the other end of the scale.
The Amazon sales blurb says "Fills nail holes and covers other minor imperfections in bare, painted, stained, and finished wood...". The container says to "stain and top coat before applying putty".
Pros:
- Comes in lots of colors, which can be mixed with other color Wood Putty to match your work.
- Goes on easily, as it's soft and spreadable.
- Minimally acceptable to fill a tiny hole/crack in finished wood; i.e., where you couldn't sand standard wood filler without damaging the surrounding finish.
Cons:
- It has a similar consistency to modeling clay, and stays that way. It doesn't dry or harden, and it can't be sanded, drilled, chiseled, scraped, stained, painted, or otherwise finished, and it won't hold screws..
- Put it on bare wood, e.g., with a putty knife, and it stains any wood it touches with the putty's color.
- The instructions also say it's "permanent", which is ridiculous since non-hardening putty isn't permanent, just like modeling clay isn't permanent.
- It will rub off or come out of the hole with cleaning or other actions.
- This item is 3.75 ounces, which should last a life-time unless you work in a furniture factory. I can't imagine why this would [also] come in one pound cans, since its uses are minuscule.
Summary:
I picked this up locally without reading the "instructions" first. I applied it to some minor defects on bare wooden shelves that were to be stained and varnished, but had to scrape it out and then sand off the stain it left, after realizing it never hardens.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Non-hardening wood putty ???Sep 23, 2009
By J. M. Casteline
I guess I should have read the instructions before I bought the product. It never gets hard! I'm still trying to figure out what use there would be for a wood filler that never gets hard. Even Playdoh gets hard. Maybe I'm missing something. Stupid me. I bought two different shades to match my darker wood projects. Now I'm staring at the nice jars, wondering what to do with them.
 Wood FillerFeb 07, 2012
By Abhilasha Kashyap
"Abhilasha Kashyap"
Minwax 13611 3.75-Ounce Wood Putty, Golden Oak was received in dark shade. Fine paste solved purpose as wood filler or caulk/putty adhesive. Usable.
Should be better labeledAug 07, 2011
By V. Doug Johnson
"web guy"
After you use this product you are going to want to know how to remove it. Luckily I had a small precision knife set for woodcarving and was able to get down into the cracks. The only good thing I discovered about this non-hardening product was that it came out relatively easy. So don't give up. Just be patient, carefully remove it, and then throw the container away so that you never make the mistake of using it again.
If the lid said MINIWAX Non-Hardening Wood Putty then I never would have made the mistake of buying it. Instead it just said MINIWAX Wood Putty. Granted if you read the back label it does say it is non-hardening, but I didn't have my reading glasses and the print is extremely small. Even so, it also says "permanent". In what possible way is it permanent? Maybe they meant permanently soft and permanently useless.
Absolutely usless!!!May 22, 2011
By Jami Sibley
The label says in fine print that it never hardens! What possible use is there for this crap? Don't smear this goo anywhere near your project or you will be sorry!
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