11-10-2021, 03:37 PM
Howdy. I am new to fine woodworking and new to this forum. I'm hopeful someone here can help. I think I may have ruined a very big, expensive project.
I built a tabletop to use as an office desk. I built it in butcher block style, with staggered strips of wood. I used three woods for variety in color. I used mahogany, walnut, and poplar. The three woods are intermixed throughout the 27" x 84" tabletop.
My equipment and skills are still works in progress, so my cuts and quality left a few cracks and gaps. I watched an online video that suggested Earl's Timbermate Wood Filler. I used as directed. I now have a prefectly flat tabletop with no gaps or holes or cracks. I also have a tabletop with white bits of wood filler in those gaps, cracks, and holes.
My intent was to finish the project with clear (untinted) Rubio Monocoat. I don't want to apply a stain because I want the red, dark grey, and white of the woods to show through in their natural colors. I applied some polyurethane to a test piece to see the results - before I put the very expensive Rubio on there. It looks terrible. The white filler is all I see. I used some light-colored stain on a test piece and I can't see the wood filler, but I also lose a lot of the natural color of the wood.
Any suggestions on how to achieve the result I'm looking for? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I built a tabletop to use as an office desk. I built it in butcher block style, with staggered strips of wood. I used three woods for variety in color. I used mahogany, walnut, and poplar. The three woods are intermixed throughout the 27" x 84" tabletop.
My equipment and skills are still works in progress, so my cuts and quality left a few cracks and gaps. I watched an online video that suggested Earl's Timbermate Wood Filler. I used as directed. I now have a prefectly flat tabletop with no gaps or holes or cracks. I also have a tabletop with white bits of wood filler in those gaps, cracks, and holes.
My intent was to finish the project with clear (untinted) Rubio Monocoat. I don't want to apply a stain because I want the red, dark grey, and white of the woods to show through in their natural colors. I applied some polyurethane to a test piece to see the results - before I put the very expensive Rubio on there. It looks terrible. The white filler is all I see. I used some light-colored stain on a test piece and I can't see the wood filler, but I also lose a lot of the natural color of the wood.
Any suggestions on how to achieve the result I'm looking for? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
However, if that doesn't happen you may be good to go. If that appear to be the case I'd probably run the test again with a marker closer to what you are looking for (even best if you have a cutoff piece that you can use for the sample board, so you can see how well the color matches). With that tabletop you might need a few different pens for the different woods.