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Guys I'm just getting to the part where I need to grain fill the uke I've made its a willow top rosewood B&S maple binding. The neck is mahogany and I plan to finish off with Tru-Oil. I have a couple of questions and a couple of things I'd like opinions about.

1. What grit should I take the body before grain fill? (I'm at 280g at the moment)
2. Epoxy or Egg White? (I used epoxy on my guitar under FP and it worked great, just took a lot of sanding, I might not of squeegeed off well enough though)

Opinions

1. Should I grain fill the neck? (Do you?)
2. I quite like the look of a mahogany neck stained to match a rosewood body (do you?)

If I do stain can I ask how and water of alcohol stains?

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I use CA to fill and as for necks , if you want to get a good match to the rosewood , I use red mahogany stain first follwed by Dark brown Mahogany stain , then use a blackened filler. I will go to 320 grit to stain and fill . If the stain doesn't work even I will use 320 grit sandpaper and sand stain to even the color.
I don't use water stains but have used aniline dyes

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