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I'm thinking of just buffing and waxing it but I'm concerned about wax getting trapped in the pores. What's the right thing to do here? Maybe a couple light coats of shellac? The rest of the neck is tru-oil. If I seal with shellac, can I Truoil over it?

Maybe even just some Stewmac fretboard oil and buff?

For an easy, but good looking finish I'd recommend pore filling with the method of your choice, and spraying it with rattle can lacquer. I doubt the tru oil will cure on Cocobolo. (I'm assumeing you don't have spray equipment. If you do just spray it with any evaporative finish)

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I can spray. I just didn't really want to go through a spray, cure, buff cycle with this. If I do shellac, I can buff out the next day, so maybe that's what I'll do.

First, just polish it up by sanding with wet/dry paper up to 1500 or whatever. Wipe on a thin coat of shellac and let it dry. Then take a scrap of muslin or similar fine cotton cloth and wad it up into a little pad. Put a couple drops of alcohol on it (just barely damp) and rub the surface with hard and fast circular motions. Shines up real good, by slightly softening the shellac surface and burnishing it out. And no risk of trapping buffing compound in pores

You could also pumice fill before the rub down, and/or French polish up a thicker shellac layer than the initial wipe, but I think cocobolo would look just fine with open pores and the simple rubbed sealer.

Except Liberon Oil finish. It will turn to goo over Zpoxy! DAMHIKT

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