{"product_id":"merit-color-pop-six-burn-in-stick-set","title":"Merit Color Pop Six — Burn-In Stick Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSix full-size Merit burn-in sticks · six colors · the painted and lacquered range\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat's in the set\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListed light to dark:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#19 — Light Yellow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#62 — Pink\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#119 — Yellow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#113 — Dark Green\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#121 — Purple\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#111 — Blue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat a burn-in stick does\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy a range\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a little surface character — pour marks, the odd bubble, an embossed number that stamped a hair off-center. They melt exactly the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/merit-color-line\"\u003eSee this set in the Merit color line →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere the burn-in stick comes from: \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-hollow\/burn-in-stick-history\"\u003ePenny a Stick: a brief history of burn-in sticks\u003c\/a\u003e. More from the line: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/merit\"\u003ethe Merit hub\u003c\/a\u003e. Questions: \u003ca href=\"mailto:orders@shellac.net\"\u003eorders@shellac.net\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chestnut Hollow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54324731576613,"sku":"MRT-SET-POP6","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/merit-set-color-pop-six-1200x1200.png?v=1793384353","url":"https:\/\/shellac.net\/products\/merit-color-pop-six-burn-in-stick-set","provider":"Shellac.net","version":"1.0","type":"link"}