Merit Mahogany & Rosewood Six — Burn-In Stick Set
Ships from Waynesboro, Virginia.
Six full-size Merit burn-in sticks · five colors · the deep reds and browns
The Mahogany & Rosewood Six is a set of six full-size Merit burn-in sticks for repairing chips and gouges in mahogany, rosewood and other dark red-brown finishes. It is the box to reach for on antique case pieces, dining tables and instrument bodies where the wood runs deep red to near-black.
Two opaque sticks carry the body color — a dark red mahogany and rosewood, doubled because it is the one you reach for most — and two semi-transparent mahoganies let the grain underneath show through a fill. The dark transparent at the end of the row is the blender: a thin pass over a leveled repair pulls it into the surrounding finish. Original factory stock, hand-poured and stamp-embossed, every stick cast one at a time.
What's in the set
Listed opaque to transparent:
- #38 — Dark Red Mahogany
- #32 — Rosewood (×2)
- #47 — Brown Mahogany Semi-Transparent
- #46 — Red Mahogany Semi-Transparent
- #12 — Amber Transparent Dark
Five colors, six sticks — Rosewood doubled.
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.
Dark woods are where that matters most: a fill that reads a hair too red or too flat on rosewood shows from across the room. This set puts the opaque body colors, the see-through grain colors and the blender in one box.
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.
