Merit Metallic Five — Burn-In Stick Set
Ships from Waynesboro, Virginia.
Five full-size Merit burn-in sticks · five colors · the metal-finished range
The Metallic Five is a set of five full-size Merit burn-in sticks for repairing chips and gouges in metal-finished surfaces — gilt picture frames, lamp bases, plated hardware and trim finished to look like metal rather than wood. It is the box for the frame and furniture restorer who gets handed the piece nobody else will touch.
Metal finishes are the hardest repair to hide, because a flat fill reads dull against a surface that catches light. These five carry a sheen of their own, so a leveled fill picks up the room the way the finish around it does — the two grays for cool brushed hardware and dark cast pieces, the taupe and the two warm metallics for gilt frames and antiqued trim. Original factory stock, hand-poured and stamp-embossed, every stick cast one at a time.
What's in the set
Listed light to dark:
- #108 — Metallic Silver
- #129 — Metallic Taupe
- #125 — Metallic Copper
- #197 — Metallic Gold
- #269 — Medium Gray Nebulus
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 metal finish the test is the sheen as much as the color: hold the stick against the piece in raking light and pick the one that catches the same way.
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.
