40006 Wood Restore Premium Epoxy Putty Kit - 32 oz.

I’m surprised more people don’t talk about this product—it has truly elevated my furniture refinishing work. I’ve been able to rebuild missing or damaged areas with great results. It’s easy to use and performs very well. The only drawback is the drying and curing time, which requires a bit of patience. That said, I highly recommend it as a valuable addition to any workshop.

Had a exterior door with a bottom end missing due to rot. Product was an excellent solution to the problem. Mixed it like playing with play dough as a child and pushed it in to place. Shaped it with a "wet" plastic coated finger. Several hours later sanded to give it the proper texture and painted it. Excellent results! Consider the cost of a new door compared to the cost to repair and you will smile. :):)

I have used many of JB Weld's products and always find them to be effective. I purchased this to repair some rotted window casing I discovered when prepping my trim for fall painting. My first impression is that the putty is dry but it does hold together. It does not smell and it's kind-of fluffy feeling. The gloves they include in the box are completely worthless but the little scraper was very useful. You can add a little water to the putty to make it more pliable but be careful and don't add too much. My experience was that it is best to knead it without adding any water. If it's too crumbly, add just a couple drops. If you add too much, it makes the putty difficult to work with because it will stick to your gloves more readily than it will stick to the wood. The putty is easy to apply in a large area. Where it gets difficult is in the smaller spaces like sun damage cracks and voids. It tends to pull itself out when you try and smooth it down. It helps to squirt a small amount of water on the top to smooth it out but only do that if you are done spreading it. You don't want the wood surface wet because the putty won't attach. In my experience, it's better to leave it shaggy and sand it down. Anyway, it worked. I had used Elmer's wood filler on the cracks a couple years ago and that was a complete fail. My impression is that this epoxy product is superior in every way. Time will tell.

I bought a new house last year and discovered this year that someone did an awful patch job on the deck railing. It looks like someone dragged a hose over the top of the wood and, over time, it caused a gouge that's about three inches wide and almost 2 inches deep. Someone filled the gouge with that pink wood filler that's intended for much smaller repairs. They threw a coat of paint on it and that was it. Needless to say, the first time I looked at it sideways the filler fell out. Before I discovered this putty I contemplated how I was going to easily, and inexpensively, fix the railing. I could have replaced the entire piece of wood but that would mean knocking out all the spindles, replace a 12 foot piece of pressure treated 2x6, prime and paint the whole thing and put it all back together again. But then I found this. I've used J B Weld epoxy for years and had the utmost confidence that they were true to their word. They include a pair of plastic gloves with the product and a small plastic spreader. I used my own gloves but the spreader was useful. Mixing it was simple, equal parts from each bucket, mush them around in your hands for a bit to get a consistent color and it's ready to go. I used the spreader to pack it in tight and smooth it a bit. By the way, they suggest using a little bit of water to dampen the product to make it easier to spread - it's a good tip. It took longer than an hour before I felt confident enough in this to start sanding it but I laid it in pretty thick. I used an electric sander and it took some doing for a 60 grit sandpaper to do its job. Just for fun I rolled up some of this like a twig and let it harden. A few hours later it was hard and snapped just like a tree twig would. The only problems I had using this is that it wanted to stick to my gloves and it took some patience to get it to stay where I wanted it. But, I found that using a little bit of water helped and if I pressed the product in with my palm instead of my fingers I got better results. Before I painted my deck rail I hit the repaired area with a hammer a few times to test the adhesion because I didn't want to have to re-do this next year. No problems at all. It all blended in so well that you can't tell where I did the repair. I bought the large size for two reasons. First I have some superficial cracks on some of the floor joists on the deck that I'm planning on filling so water doesn't get in there. Second, just like my J B Weld epoxy, it's a nice product to have around. Also, if you look at the price per ounce of this putty the larger size makes more sense.

WARNING - UPDATE 4/15/2017: I bought another box of this on Jet for using at my new house, and it was COUNTERFEIT. Not sealed, never hardened after use, and bright yellow color. If you have any problems with this awesome product, it might be fake! ORIGINAL - This is a real review- I did not get any discounts or anything. I searched for it out of the blue on my own. Used this to fix up some rotting wood sills outside after watching a YouTube video of the this is old house guy who said to use 'wood epoxy' . I couldn't find the brand he had so I chose this. Worked great. Is extra hard so if you're using push points to replace a glass window it's a little harder to get them in. The stuff is much thicker than wood filler, and thicker than the wood epoxy used in the YouTube videos.. It's more the consistency of regular J-B Weld. But you can put a little water on your fingers to help smooth it, and that worked really really well. I'm impressed. I think I actually prefer this to the runny stuff that wouldn't keep its shape - especially for huge gaps. It sands very nicely also. Would (update: actually did) buy again. The only downside is it's kind of expensive for doing large areas. PS I'm a girl that's not at all handy, and this was a fun project I could do on my own. Tips: It takes a while to mix it (kneed it), and it does get softer the more you kneed. Don't use it until it's a uniform color - I've read that's the most common mistake.

Très bonne qualité et utile pour de grosses réparations