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   john_c2 | Aug 13, 2020 10:48pm | #1

   I've used RotFix in the past for punky wood.

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   jbot304 | Aug 13, 2020 11:53pm | #2

   Would you suggest applying that before staining or after

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   gulfstar | Aug 14, 2020 08:09am | #3

   I do this frequently on turning decayed wood for making decorative bowls. I turn the bowl blanks to one inch thick then dry them for one year and coat/fill with epoxy before final turning. It keeps the wood together and keeps dust and dirty to eventually enter the wood . It won’t take stain so if you have a color in mind, use pigments in the epoxy.

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   jbot304 | Aug 14, 2020 11:31am | #4

   Thanks gulfstar but I need to stain the wood with a specific color. I don’t want to tint the epoxy. I guess I’m gathering I need to get the top close to finished and then stain it. Then put on the penetrating epoxy and once hardened sand. Correct?

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   gulfstar | Aug 14, 2020 12:37pm | #5

   Epoxy is to fill voids and consolidate porous areas, it goes on first and gets sanded away leaving holes filled, see it as a filler.

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   john_c2 | Aug 14, 2020 12:44pm | #6

   The punky wood is going to absorb a lot more stain than the harder parts, and hence be darker.

   The point of using salted wood is the variations in colors and shades. Embrace that. Trying to get the color even is an exercise in frustration.

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   jbot304 | Aug 14, 2020 05:48pm | #7

   Gulf will the wood take the stain after it’s been sealed up like that?

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   gulfstar | Aug 15, 2020 09:04am | #8

   Can you post a picture so we see what the wood is like ?

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   flyfisher111 | Aug 15, 2020 11:39am | #9

   I have had success in small areas with thin cyanoacrylate. Sometimes I thin it more with a little acetone. It penetrates very well, but will not take stain.

   I recently flowed it into a check on the end of a piece that had to go into a table top. It flowed well past where I thought the check ended. After clamping tightly and sanding, it wa sinvisible.