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Well, I ordered some peghead plates from LMI. One was quilted sapele. When I opened the package, I have to admit I was less than stunned by what I saw. But no real bother, I was just wanting to get the job done and I could tell there was "some" figure in there. After gluing, drilling, and sanding, I broke out the Z-Poxy, mixed a small batch, put on my nitrile gloves and applied it. The effect was almost "science fiction", like watching an image appear in the air in front of me. Even wetting the wood did not do this. I will try to post some before and after pics with the scraps I have left over. Wish I had taken pictures of the main part. The results were stunning.

Mike

That is one of the fun parts of building, watching the wood come to life in response to your working it, sanding it and finishing it.

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I love the effect too Mike.....putting on that first coat of z-poxy is one of the most enjoyable parts of guitar making for me.

Dave F.

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"Does epoxy cause the grain to pop?"

Big time Mike - so much so that there is a thread in the archives where one OLFer thought that epoxy could be used as a finish. Although epoxy is not hard enough to be used as a finish I can understand what led folks to think that it could.

It's often the first time that we see how our guitars will look under finish.

My question was rhetorical as I know we have discussed this many times before. Its one thing to apply epoxy to figured wood and see it gain depth. Its another to apply it to something you know should have figure, but does not obviously seem to. The figure pop on that sapele was amazing. And after sanding, it has remained. Todd, I used super thinned epoxy for the second coat and was very impressed. Thanks.

I am an epoxy grain popping convert.

Mike

I had this experience with a Spalted maple eletric top. I filled a crack on a side that was opening more and more, with epoxy. And just by applying this on a 3'' x 5'' area, I discovered that this spalted set was also ''curly'' like hell!

The top was looking like simply spalted, but underfinish, it's a spalted high curly spalted maple.

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