This is what I do too - it works really well, but if doing a dark stain you have to add quite a bit of stain to the filler and this slows down the curing time so plan accordingly (rather than 24 hours, I've had to wait as long as 3 days for the filler to fully harden).have you tried mixing stain pigment from can with filler then hole filling? try on scrap first
Do you mean lacquer sticks (i.e., the solid coloured, sort of glassy sticks that you melt to fill holes?)Another old time filler --shellac sticks--There is a learning curve with those--however,I find them handy in certain circumstances.
This is what I do too - it works really well, but if doing a dark stain you have to add quite a bit of stain to the filler and this slows down the curing time so plan accordingly (rather than 24 hours, I've had to wait as long as 3 days for the filler to fully harden).
Do you mean lacquer sticks (i.e., the solid coloured, sort of glassy sticks that you melt to fill holes?)
I've used shellac buttons and shellac flakes, but I've never encountered shellac sticks.