Fix chip-outs in floor
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All,

I'm working on a bathroom renovation and need some wood related advise for the floor just outside the bathroom. The maple floor (with an aluminum oxide finish, I believe) was installed about a year ago, and the installers nicely back beveled the boards so they could fit tight against the old marble threshold. When removing that threshold, some residue on the sides of it caught on the thin edge of the wood flooring and chipped it up, in some spots fairly significantly.

I saved the chipped pieces with the thought of gluing them back in place, but due to a series of unfortunate events, they got thrown out.

So, what would you do to fix this? My only thought is to cut the boards back a bit, which is difficult in their installed position. But from an aesthetic standpoint, there's room to do so, as the wood comes pretty far into the door opening. I think I could safely remove 1" (or more), which would leave a 2.5" wide threshold (current gap between wood and tile is 1.5"). I know some people like the threshold to only sit below the door, but I don't know that I care a lot, as long as it stays within the width of the door frame.

The only possibilities I've come up with:

1. Use (sharp) chisels and a guide board (which I have no way of clamping down) to pare the floor boards back about an inch. This seems like it would take quite a while. If doing this, I would hope that I could score the boards first with a marking gage (might not go through the finish) or utility knife.
   
2. Use a palm router and a guide board to essentially do the same thing. That would mean a flush trimrouter bit with a bearing. Istill can't clamp down the guide board, but I can sit on top of it for this shorter duration. And the router can't get all the way to the edges, so there'd still be some clean up with chisels.
   

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