{"product_id":"merit-mahogany-rosewood-six-burn-in-stick-set","title":"Merit Mahogany \u0026 Rosewood Six — Burn-In Stick Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSix full-size Merit burn-in sticks · five colors · the deep reds and browns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mahogany \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat's in the set\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListed opaque to transparent:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#38 — Dark Red Mahogany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#32 — Rosewood \u003cem\u003e(×2)\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#47 — Brown Mahogany Semi-Transparent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#46 — Red Mahogany Semi-Transparent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e#12 — Amber Transparent Dark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive colors, six sticks — Rosewood doubled.\u003c\/p\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\u003eDark 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.\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":54320650649893,"sku":"MRT-SET-MAHOG6","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/5136\/2853\/files\/merit-set-mahogany-rosewood-six-1200x1200.png?v=1793372585","url":"https:\/\/shellac.net\/products\/merit-mahogany-rosewood-six-burn-in-stick-set","provider":"Shellac.net","version":"1.0","type":"link"}