Black Epoxy On Mahogany?

[Daniel Sorbera]

ok I got a peice of mahognay and will be staining it green. I need to fill the grain, I will do it in epoxy. Should I use the black epoxy or just clear?

[Maiden69]

The color of the epoxy is up to your taste. But if you are staininn the mahogany , I will recomend what Drak told me to do, bleach the mahogany so the stain will look better, if not it will be darker than the color you use because of the brown tone of the mahogany.

[asm]

what about that crazy stuff called 'grain filler' from stewmac or lmii.

[Drak]

Maiden, that was only if you're dying it blue.

As long as you're doing any earth tone shade (yellow/red/brown), I wouldn't bleach Mahogony.

Bleaching wood is adding another complete 'operation' to finishing wood that I would prefer a noob stay away from until they have some experience. And even then, it's usually kept to lightening up a nice Maple top that's not perfectly white when doing a blue finish of some sort.

And for asm and Godin, grain filler and pore filler have been gone over again and again and again, just use the search engine, there's a boatload of info here about all those products. And if you don't fine enough here to keep you occupied, the MIMF has a boatload MORE about them.

[Daniel Sorbera]

ya I couldent find anything specific on using black grain filler on mahogany, So I was wonder if yall could give me an answer, but looks like i've decided just to try both (black and clear) on a little peice of scrap and finish the process and see which looks best

[Drak]

Well, it all depends on what look your trying to get.

What look -are- you trying to get?

Personally, I'd like to see a black epoxy filled piece of Mahogony, I've never done one like that, and I've never seen one, so if you do it, post a pic.

[Daniel Sorbera]

ya when I try it i'll post a pic

well auccually here is a thred on my guitar i'm building. I will be posting there until I'm finished with my guitar. So just check there and i'll have some pics of the finishing process

[Maiden69]

Hey Drak, I remembered about the earth tone color, but since he said that he wanted to do a green color, I thought it will be about the same as the blue! One of the volunteers were Igo to work liked my guitar ans she is a preety good wood worker and want to make one for her husband now... She just bought him a PRS on summer, and the guy had a nice colection of Fenders, I'm going to ask him to play mine to see what he thinks... Oh back to subject... she is getting some figured mahogany at a lumber place in PA, I don't rememberthe name but she said that if I help her she will give me enough for a top! I see it now, black grain filled blue with maple stripes or a Carvin neck thru.