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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:07 pm 
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Anyone with experience using ColorTone Water Based Grain Filler from StewMac? I have used it, then sprayed KTM-9 water based laquer.

Any cautions on compatibility with other laquers or materials from those with experience with the stuff?

I've read the posts about pore filling with Zepoxy and it seems to have some problems getting a good application. The ColorTone goes on right out of the can, brushes on smooth, and sands off OK. Needs several applications to get good coverage. It seems so easy to use that there must be some downside to it.

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I've had mixed results with Z poxy. It's been a bit challenging to get even coverage with it. If you do try it, the main trick is to make it all look nice and even before you try topcoating it. I believe Hesh (or was it Todd Stock?) posted a good tutorial on this...he applies 2 coats of Z-poxy to fill and then sands it back. It will get splotchy a bit...so you give it a final wash coat of 50/50 denatured alchohol and Zpoxy to even it out.

I'll have to try the colortone stuff. I was thinking of trying the HSF filler from Target..but that seems to have gotten mixed reviews...

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I've used it with mixed results. It really doesn't pop the grain like Z-poxy at all. Putting a coat of shellac or two down underneath helps.

On top of that, it seems to take a lot of coats to get it to fill. I needed to fill a rosette and I ended up drop filling almost every pore to get it right. It was still probably faster that way than to brush and squeegee - I just couldn't bring myself to mix up an ounce of z-poxy only to throw 99% of it away!! (it takes very little z-poxy to do a pore fill)

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Andy Birko wrote:
I just couldn't bring myself to mix up an ounce of z-poxy only to throw 99% of it away!! (it takes very little z-poxy to do a pore fill)

With thanks to Kim on the ANZLF, this is the method I'm using now to minimize wastage of epoxy:
Accurate measurement of Zpoxy Grain Filler

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Can't see that without registering and logging in Pete - any chance you could summarize for us?

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Dave Fifield wrote:
Can't see that without registering and logging in Pete - any chance you could summarize for us?Dave F.

OK Dave, if a picture tells a thousand words, here's 2,000. Sorry for the hijack Pat! And thanks again to Kim.

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Pete Brown wrote:
OK Dave, if a picture tells a thousand words, here's 2,000. Sorry for the hijack Pat! And thanks again to Kim.


Brilliant!

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