What does Martin factory use for pore-filling?

[deadedith]

What does Martin use as a pore-filler? What have they used in the past? If it is good enough for Martin, or for Breedlove or Taylor etc., why aren't we all just using that?

[tippie53]

mineral based product very much like pore o paq

[mjmeehan]

And they apply it with buffers. That area of the shop is the only one that is a mess. Not something I could do at home, at least not without getting thrown out!

[tippie53]

actually it is applied with a paint brush and then buffed into the wood . You are right , kinda dirty work

Why buffers? Are they that much more expedient and effective than hand application??

-tommy

[0018G]

Buffers as in a wool bonnet and sling it all over the place? Hard to believe the wool wouldn't pull the filler out of the pores. Am I visualizing this correctly?

[mjmeehan]

All I can figure is that the filler sets up some and the buffer helps smear it level, like John said, working it into the wood. That's just a guess but I do know that "sling it all over the place" is accurate!

[tippie53]

The filler is painted on , and as it sets up ( flashing) they it is with a wool bonnet as Mike said. This forces the filler into the pores. I rub it in with a cloth but the buffer is faster . They also have these cool vacuum clamps to hold the body