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Jim, did you use plain old egg white, straight out of the shell? Or did you do something like the recipe Sam posted?

Alain, I haven't used CA for pore filling, but Starbond CAs are great, and less expensive than others. The wider selection of viscosities may help you find the one that works best for you if you decide to try again with CA for filling.

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Todd Rose
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Todd, Not being smart enough to know I needed a recipe I just separated the yoke from the whites and went at it.

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Jim Watts
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I think it works fine both ways, Jim. I know Colin, and Joshua just crack the egg and separate the yolk out, the only variant is the container they use for holding the egg white. I remember something about a highball glass.

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Waddy

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FWIW, I cracked open a couple of eggs last night, separated the whites and gave it a whirl. First pass looks pretty good. It sure is nice to be working with a material so benign.

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George :-)

You might consider trying shellac and sawdust as well. Robbie O'Brien teaches this method. I've used it a couple times under a french polish and it works very well. Just get a bunch of very fine sawdust ready, and mash it in with a cotton ball dipped in a thin cut of shellac. I have to say I still like the look of epoxy the best though.

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Mike

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I prefer to use egg whites as more of a sizing and antiqueing technique than a pore filler.
For filling I prefer the shellac and sawdust method. The idea is the same. You are using a filler, in this case sawdust, with a binding agent, either shellac or egg white.

I used shellac as the binding agent for the sawdust on my last build. It worked well for me, but I had to work much faster than I did with the egg whites. There's probably some trick to slowing down the shellac's set up time that I don't know. If so, I hope someone will share. :-)

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George :-)

Alain,

I've used good ol' "long-winded" Hesh's - technique on my guitars. I use ZPoxy because it's not
as critical on the mix ratio. I generally use two regular mix coats, both sanded back to where bare wood
shows here and there. I follow the second coat with a third coat mixed 50/50 with DA. This is a very thin
skim coat, just to get the color consistant. I sand very lightly, then have always followed with a shellac
seal coat. I've used this process under both nitrocellulose lacquer and french polish, with good results from
both.

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Gene

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