How to fill woodworm holes?

[averageplinker]

Evening all,
Whilst I am waiting for the seized screw on my Musketeer to unstick I thought I would do a little to the stock. I want to fill the woodworm holes and strengthen the stock and initially thought I could make a tin into a vacuum box which I could use to suck varnish into the holes. For various reasons I have decided not to do this.
Instead I am thinking I will inject the varnish, but where can I get a syringe with a woodworm hole sized needle?

Does anyone have any other suggestions for filling the holes, I want to fill them deep rather than shallow?
Cheers

[loiner1965]

Have you tried inserting cocktail sticks with a dab of glue on the ends.
When dry ,cut and restain to suit colour of stock

[frogboy]

depending on how many you have to do and your patience levels, French polish cocktail stick as a nib to run it into the hole.

prepare yourself for a long evening.

Lee

[johnbaz]

I would find a bit of hardwood a little lighter in colour, Rub it with some abrasive paper and catch the dust then mix it with a bit of PVA white glue until stodgy then push it in with a spreader and wait to dry, You could go over it with a wet cloth so there no rubbing of the stock if you don't want to refinish it...

Mixing the wood dust with the glue makes for a slightly darker finish if you use the wood dust from the stock so i'd try to find something a little lighter


John

[Peter Dunkley]

I would find a bit of hardwood a little lighter in colour, Rub it with some abrasive paper and catch the dust then mix it with a bit of PVA white glue until stodgy then push it in with a spreader and wait to dry, You could go over it with a wet cloth so there no rubbing of the stock if you don't want to refinish it...

Mixing the wood dust with the glue makes for a slightly darker finish if you use the wood dust from the stock so i'd try to find something a little lighter


John

Excellent advice. I would wet the wood well first. This will help the PVA and dust get into the holes. PVA will mix with water!

[averageplinker]

Excellent advice. I would wet the wood well first. This will help the PVA and dust get into the holes. PVA will mix with water!

That's what I was intending to do once I had filled the deeper parts of the hole (or possibly the cocktail stick method instead) hopefully it would prevent any filler from being able to sink into the void.
Rich

[micky2]

l would inject it with woodworm killer first as the little blighters might still be in there. if you do inject with the varnish l would thin some down with white spirit as that would flow deeper into the holes. you should be able to get a syringe of *bay best of luck with it.

[averageplinker]

l would inject it with woodworm killer first as the little blighters might still be in there. if you do inject with the varnish l would thin some down with white spirit as that would flow deeper into the holes. you should be able to get a syringe of *bay best of luck with it.

I may have taken a very long time to not get very far but I did treat it for woodworm immediately upon purchase