Hello all, this is my first time posting and this first time I have made a guitar (and first time using epoxy haha) so any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm approaching the finish with this, but after the epoxy dried and I sanded it to be level with the wood in saw there were a couple very small, about 1/4 the size of a fingerip craters that run about 1/16 of an inch deep. Im not sure if the wipe on poly I am applying would fill those, and any reccomendations here i would highly appreciate as sanding the entire guitar down to that level would remove the patterns I made in the epoxy (I put traces of gold colored epoxy at the top).
Second and final, is that along this journey I have also made a wood block mimicking each process of the epoxy so that I can test it before I do it on the guitar. I sanded the epoxy at 180 grit, applied a layer of wipe on poly and I could still see scratches after it dries, so I sanded lightly (to not sand through the poly) at 400 grit and applied another layer of poly. Ive done this about 4 times but can still see scratches at angles where light hits the epoxy. What have I done wrong? Thank you guys.
Note: the greenness of the epoxy is result of photo editor that compressed file size so that I can upload it.