I'm making a table for a friend -- 1" cherry, 38" x 92"

I've been liking Odie's Oil, so I decided to use it.

I made a couple of oop'es during planing and thought "Oh, I'll just fill it in with epoxy, just like I'm doing with the cracks and imperfections"

So I fill in holes, cracks, etc., and the planing dips with epoxy. So far, so good.

Then I put Odie's Oil on and the epoxied planing dips stand out like a sore thumb! All glossy and wet looking. Yuck!

But wait, that's not all. I had forgotten she wanted the cherry stained dark, like a mahogany.

So now I've got a finished table top with small areas of dark, shiny epoxy showing and the rest a nice oiled cherry.

Any advice on how to fix these two blunders would sure be appreciated.

Thank you,

Joseph