Oh brother, now I’ve done it. The oak pieces I did the pore-filling on the other night are now Watco’d, but some of the pores must have had some kind of residue in them, because they show up almost white! Is there some way I can get some color into these pores? They are not filled to the top, as I can feel them — the kind of pores that are sliced lengthwise, so they run in long ribbons down the face of the wood.
If you need a pic to “get the picture” LMK and I’ll take one. I scanned it, but didn’t really show the effect well.
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If there is a trick to getting rid of the white pores without refinishing I haven't heard of it.
It sounds like you have 2 problems. The first is that you applied the watco before the filler was cured. That's where the white spots came from. The second is that the pores were not completely filled. To make it easier, I'll send you to this article on filling pores - http://www.wwforum.com/faqs_articles/fillers.html
Note the cure times required and the second application of pore filler needed on large pored woods like oak.
Paul
F'burg, VA
Jamie -
I'm not a finishing pro by any stretch of the imagination but here's something you could try on some scrap -
Fill the scrap pieces using the same proceedure(s) that you filled your finished piece. Watco the piece as well - that is, bring it to the same level of finish that the case is now.
You mentioned you're using Daly's material. Have you ever used Ben Matte finishing oil? Don't know what finish you had intended other than the Watco but ... the recommended application for Ben Matte is to apply it liberally letting it stand a bit then wet sand with 200, 400 wet/dry paper. The guy at Daly's suggested doing this for filling some pieces off the lathe as I was looking for a highly polished surface. His suggestion was that the fine sawdust mixes with the Ben Matte - which is basically a tung oil material, and acts as a filler of sorts. Thus it might tone down the white spottiness you have going.
Then on the other hand, you might be able to accomplish the same thing with the Watco oil. Try all this on a piece of scrap like I mentioned and see if it at least brings the thing into some kind of harmony with itself.....
If you need the Ben Matte lemme know b4 Friday and I can pick some up - I'm on the East side, no problem.
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