Damaged plywood veneer

[Georgeandpat]

I hate to ask this because I will be admitting how carelessly stupid I was but here goes. I was using a palm sander on the interior door skin and before I realized it had sanded through the veneer to the base wood in a couple of locations. It's making me sick just thinking about it. Any tips out there(besides taking up a different hobby) on how best to correct this? I know that I could replace the entire skin but the grain matches the interior since it was cut from the same sheet. Thanks, George.

[mikeschn]

Veneer can't be sanded because it's so thin. Paint the walls white!

Mike...

[BILLYL]

Well this can happen to anybody. How big of a sand thru do you have. One fix is to cut in a Dutchman - a patch. You could do a interesting shape using wood veneer that is a contrasting type -that would fill the void and I would repeat the pattern across the door panel. Kind of like you really intended to do that. If it is really big try and find some veneer close to the graining you have - check your local wood supplier.

Or-
Again the size of the problem - could you build a small magazine holder. Something you could use to store somethings.

Or-
Patch it with an exterior wood patching compound and paint the door some matching color.

Good Luck
BILL