Merit Color Pop Six — Burn-In Stick Set
Ships from Waynesboro, Virginia.
Six full-size Merit burn-in sticks · six colors · the painted and lacquered range
The Color Pop Six is a set of six full-size Merit burn-in sticks for repairing chips and gouges in painted, lacquered and colored finishes — nursery furniture, mid-century casework, enameled cabinets, instrument cases and anything else that is not a wood tone. It is the box for the repair tech who has every brown on the shelf and nothing for a chipped blue door.
Two yellows, a pink, a blue, a purple and a dark green: the colors the wood-tone racks skip. Each one lays down opaque and level, and because they are the same natural resin as the rest of the line they mix on the knife — a little light yellow into the green shifts it toward the olive of a painted sideboard, the pink warms a blue toward lavender. Original factory stock, hand-poured and stamp-embossed, every stick cast one at a time.
What's in the set
Listed light to dark:
- #19 — Light Yellow
- #62 — Pink
- #119 — Yellow
- #113 — Dark Green
- #121 — Purple
- #111 — Blue
What a burn-in stick does
A burn-in stick fills chips, gouges, and worn edges with hard natural resin that takes a finish like the wood around it. Melt a little off the stick with a heated knife, flow it into the damage, level it, and finish over it — the same repair the trade has been doing this way for generations.
Why a range
A burn-in has to disappear into the finish around it, and color is what gives it away. The usual method is to pick the stick closest to the surrounding wood — often deliberately a shade lighter, since it is easier to bring color up over a level fill than to take it back out — then work the tone and grain on top once it sits flush.
On a painted surface there is no grain to hide behind, so getting the color close on the first pass matters more than anywhere else; six distinct hues give you a mixing base for the rest.
Expect a little surface character — pour marks, the odd bubble, an embossed number that stamped a hair off-center. They melt exactly the same.
See this set in the Merit color line →
Where the burn-in stick comes from: Penny a Stick: a brief history of burn-in sticks. More from the line: the Merit hub. Questions: orders@shellac.net.
