I recently completed a small project-plate display stand.
PlateStand 001.jpg
The semi-circular piece holding the bottom of the plate is Pine.
When I cleaned up the edges (vertical faces) of the router work
there was tear-out leaving voids. My chisel was sharp and only
3/16" in width. I used some Durham's Rock Hard Putty
which 1) was on hand 2) known to be known of very similar color
to the Pine.
Sanding was done including shaping some sanding sticks to allow
getting down into the bottom and edges of the routing and paper of
various grits contact cemented to these "tools".
When polyurethane was applied the putty "popped".
All the above is on the road to asking what light colored wood
would be appropriate for what was attempted here? In other words,
what stock could have been used to let me clean up the vertical edges
going down into the bottom/s of the routing? In the past I have done
projects where names have been routed into scrap but in those cases
any tearout was filled and the routing carefully painted black to the surface
flush line; no problem. I realize this is related to carving in only the
most rudimentary sense but as title of post says...