Merit Country Six — Burn-In Stick Set
Ships from Waynesboro, Virginia.
Six full-size Merit burn-in sticks · six colors · the country and cottage woods
The Country Six is a set of six full-size Merit burn-in sticks for repairing chips and gouges in the warmer, softer-toned woods of country furniture — pale cork and fruitwood, teak, cedar and the deep autumn browns. It is the box for anyone who works on farmhouse tables, blanket chests, cupboards and the painted-over or oiled pieces that turn up at every estate sale.
These are the in-between colors a wood-tone set usually skips: cork for bleached and limed surfaces, fruitwood and teakwood for the mid-range, cedar for the reddish browns, and autumn for the deep ones. The amber ultra translucent at the end of the row is the stick you will reach for on almost every job — a thin pass over a leveled fill blends it into whatever finish surrounds it. Original factory stock, hand-poured and stamp-embossed, every stick cast one at a time.
What's in the set
Listed light to dark:
- #26 — Cork
- #73A — Fruitwood Oak
- #76 — Teakwood
- #11 — Cedar
- #14 — Amber Ultra Translucent
- #68 — Autumn
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.
Country pieces were built from whatever was local and finished with whatever was on hand, so the colors wander more than in formal furniture. This set gives you six distinct stops across that range rather than six shades of one brown.
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.
