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Hi All,
I'm refinishing an oak table and my finish will be Poly. I would like to fill the pores without adding extra coloring to the wood. Any suggestions?
Thanks. Larry

I've used Daly's paste wood filler with good results and only a slight darkening of the wood (ash). I'd try it on some like scrap if you have an. Other than that bit of darkening, it worked great for me.

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If you are going to stain the table Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty absorbs stain about the sain as oak.
If not using a sanding sealer or using a filler that is tinted to the colour of the wood.

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My brother used shellac and wet sanded his oak table top to a very smooth finish and filled the pours with the oak sanding dust at the same time.
I have done basically the same thing using BLO on some smaller things. The BLO (or shellac) holds the sanding dust in the pours long enough to get a poly or other hard shell finish on the item and holds the color at the same time.

Rog

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Thank you for your replies. I don't want to stain the top so I think I'll give Roger's suggestion a try with shellac. I'm planning on using Poly as the finish. Again, Thank You all.
Larry

Famowood filler
Is great .