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Put some good music on and drop into a zen state Joe. The pore filling will whiz by and you’ll be done by Christmas. …. :-)
I feel your pain but the finish will be worth it.
Hang in there.

You guys are discouraging me from trying French polishing. Rubbing a piece of wood for hours doesn’t sound too appealing and I find music in my shop distracting. I do have all the French polishing supplies though, so I will probably give it a whirl in the near future. Good luck with your walnut Joe, I hope you don’t fall asleep in the middle of the job. I admire your willingness to go the extra mile.

I’ll admit since this is a proof of concept piece I got a tad lazy, but the pore filling overall was “acceptable”. As usual the corners could have used more work. Someday I will remember that for some odd reason, corners take 4 times longer to pore fill than the rest of the piece.

Mike, it’s not an easy process, but it’s well worth it. It came out nice and this is a fairly mediocre job (even for me). It could have used another padding session, but instead I chose to just rub it out with Tripoli grade rottenstone.