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My first finish job. Due to incredible negligence on my part, I do not have any scraps of the wood to test finish a head of time.

What we are looking at here is East Indian Rosewood that has had it's pores filled and sanding back down to the wood. I used zpoxy to fill the pores. You can see a spot wear it appears to be a little bit of tear out on the wood, leading to a large quarter size area of zpoxy. It's close level now, maybe one more coat. But I'm not sure how that spot will look under the spray lacquer. The way I see it, I have two options.



1.) cover it in zpoxy again, and don't sand down to the wood.

2.) Continue with the lacquer, and hope it won't be that noticeable?


The issue with number 1 is that I don't like the way the wood looked when I put on the zpoxy. It took the vibrant color and made it quit dull.The issue with number 2 is that I am quite positive that it will show... So I'm hoping for an option number 3.

Opinions?

Evil, looks like a low spot or cupping in the side. If it is a low spot, the epoxy is filling the void. You may have to sand down into the low spot in order to keep the epoxy even. Other than that, it looks just fine.

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drop fill, level, continue with the finish.

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option 1 will work the best of the two. Or you could go as Joe suggested and carefully sand back the low spots to bare wood.

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I was afraid of that. I'm not sure I want to go chasing it. It would be way to thin there for my liking.

Would I be able to fill that with thick CA glue? Or would that look bad once it's lacquered over?

Or, what would be the issue with sanding the low spot smooth, and then trying to level it with the multiple coats of lacquer. Just the time and effort of multiple coats of lacquer?

Yeah, you can't leave that little patch. It will look bad.

Forget CA.

Either recoat as in option 1, or sand smooth so that the pores are filled, and build it up with lacquer.

You -could- cheat a little and use compatible sanding sealer. It's standard practice in the furniture industry.

Level everything out with epoxy. Be a little more discriminating at the sanding stage. I use blocks and sponges and do it all by hand. You will probably end up with some areas where the expoxy is a tad thicker, but I don't think you will notice after full finish. If you continue from here and do drop fills, you are not going to like the result. If you do decide to go that route, use an epoxy wash coat to get the color even first. You should do that regardless.

Going that route.

Just do like Todd suggests. 2-3 coats so u have some thickness to work with. Done right, you should be able to level sand without going to bare wood.