Working with wood is awesome! You can create so many great things. As much as I love creating beautiful things with wood there is one thing that always seems to happen - splintering.

Splintered wood is most often caused by using the wrong blade for the wood being cut and usually only happens on one side. More times than not you can make sure it's on the side that won't be seen. But sometimes you just can't get around using the splintered side (or if you are like me, you aren't paying attention and end up using the wrong side -oops). Usually when I do that I try to prime and paint it hoping it will cover the damage. That rarely works and it pretty much ends up looking like this: