13-Piece Wood Scratch Repair Kit by Katzco - Furniture Markers and Wax Sticks - Covers Scratches, Stains and Scuffs on Floors, Cabinets and Desks - Includes Sharpener

This product not only repairs nicks and scratches in wood and laminated products but is excellent for hiding the light exposed edge of veneers. This can dramatically improve the look of inexpensive laminated/veneered shelving, etc. I love these markers!Some Thoughts --These are really juicy markers - pretty wet compared to conventional markers. There's a lot of stain in each one so you get good mileage out of each. This really offsets the whole issue of price vs not using all the colors. Also, the covers have a really positive snap fit - you have to push hard to click them closed but that should seal these up and keep them moist for a long time. Double check when you are done.The stain works best on unfinished/exposed wood (like the bottom of a scratch). Even fairly large unfinished areas take the stain uniformly without obvious striping from adjacent marker strokes. However, finished or non-absorbent surfaces are a little more problematic and are where quick smudging/blending with your thumb to feather the stain comes in.Veneer Edges --For dressing the edge of finishing veneers on corners, hold the broad side of the marker at a 45 degree angle to the two corner faces and leaning forward a bit and just swipe the length of the edge lightly. There will be minimum contact to either of the two faces adjacent to the corner and very little if any color feathering required.Removing Excess Stain --For hiding surface scratches the idea is to color the scratch but not the surrounding finished surface. This is virtually impossible considering the width of the marker tip, but it's pretty easy to remove the excess stain since it turns out the marker stain is alcohol-soluble. I use Zeiss Lens Cleaning Wipes (available on Amazon). They are soaked in alcohol, are lint-free, and have a relatively hard surface that does not easily deform into scratches/nicks when wiping. They only stay moist for a couple of minutes, but that's workable. So - use the marker to make the color repair, then rub the alcohol wipe lightly over the repaired area to remove the excess surface stain but leave the stain in the scratch which is below the surface. Wipe perpendicular to the scratch (cross-ways not long-ways) so the wipe will tend to skip over the stain in the scratch. Don't press down since that will push the wipe into the damaged area and remove the stain that you want to keep. Done.Since the wipes remove the stain easily, even botched color matches, etc are easy to clean up for another try. The alcohol wipes work great on laminates but use care on unwaxed wood surfaces since alcohol can remove existing stain.Anyhow - the photos show a quickie 2 minute repair to a badly scratched laminated desktop using the lens wipe technique. This nasty scratch has been there for years and is now virtually invisible. Amazing results!

They do match some colors but not perfect. However, for the price and small blemishes it does the job well

Worked amazing on bathroom cabinets. Our cats have scratched up our bathroom cabinets trying to jump up and get water from the sink. I wad beyond skeptical, but these worked great. There is no trace of a scratch. I used the walnut marker to get the color right followed by the walnut crayon to get the right texture and to blend and fill in the scratch.

Got for wear on RV cabinets. None of the colors matched the cabinets. I mixed 2 colors to get as close as possible. I found the markers worked best but, though there was more ink, the tips got too mushy to reuse. Good for a one time application only if you are doing several cabinets.

Bought these for a used crib where the handrails had scratches, gouges, and bite marks all over. See picture for before and after; I left a bit unimproved at the top so you can compare and see what is where on each side of the picture. The cherry color marker was absolutely perfect. I'm still not sure how you are supposed to use the wax sticks because they are basically crayons with weak color. But the markers made a fantastic difference... I colored along the same direction as the wood grain then immediately wiped with a paper towel. Make sure you wipe or else it might look like you just colored on it with a marker. But I couldn't be more impressed. I would buy the whole kit just for that one marker!

I'm all fairness, i did buy these several months ago. But i never opened to use them until now. Disappointing. Only 1 of the 6 markers wasn't dried out. And that one is barely working. I managed to pull the "nib" out, expecting it to be long like in a highlighter marker. But it was only 2 inches long and tapered into the body of the marker. No wonder they dried out so fast without being opened. I won't buy this brand again.

These markers worked perfectly. We bought a table and chairs at a thrift store. The chairs were a bit weathered but with the marker you can barely see where the marker was used (black). Also the table is a dark cherry color and the brown marker was perfect.

The product is easy to use. It worked well flat surfaces, but not very well on the corners of furniture. Unfortunately, most of the chips and damage are on the corners of my furniture. The markers covered damage on See the corners little bit, but it was still obvious that there was wear and tear on the corners.