It worked! Thanks so much! I posted before and after photos in another comment further up

I fixed it, really well and easily 🥲 with the steam method recommended here, and some slight polishing of the varnish. Looks so good as new! Will post images here

I had to read your comments to get it, and I knew about Tesla using glue on that, and about got2b, just not that it used to have an umlaut. I think it’s funny now, though xD So, maybe the downvotes are from people who understandably didn’t get it. Maybe it was a bit too convoluted. Nice effort, though! I believe in you, you got a viral meme inside you somewhere 💪

I know the brand, but that is some deep hair gel lore

To add sadism on top of masochism, tell all your friends how you did it in great detail

It does, very well

This is the comment

In this timeline you find the actual truth in shitposts

Speak for yourself

Worried. Hoping something good will come from it, somehow. Like an EU that gets its shit together and becomes more independent and builds new relationships with better countries than the US.

I lol’ed

I found a video where they put small holes in the varnish with a knife, then let it sit wet for a couple of hours, then steam it through a towel, and it worked pretty well on a test dent!

Thanks for putting me on this path, I looked up a video where they put small holes in the varnish, wet it for a couple of hours, then steam it through a cloth, and it worked pretty well on a test dent! I’ll wait and see how it looks tomorrow after drying out and maybe move on to the rest!

You might have helped me save a lot of money!

I’ll be damned, it actually worked pretty well on the test dent for now, apparently! I’ll see how it looks after drying out tomorrow, and do it for the rest then!

Thanks for the warning, I respect that - but this video seems pretty straightforward, I’m about to try it on one of those dents:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8yba4KlyY

Thanks for that expert advice - let’s consider the scenario where I don’t know what I’m doing, and I just want to avoid my landlord deducting too much from the deposit when I move out, what would you recommend?

I would agree, but I’m afraid my landlord will look under that rug at some point

That sounds like a fun thing to improvise, thanks, I’ll try it!

I’m renting a flat 🙈 and the story would be the one of my neglect, and me having to pay off the landlord, it’s not my favorite one

I tried letting some water sit for some hours in one dent, to see if the wood would expand - but nothing happened. I guess that would rule out steam, unless I remove the varnish in the dents first?