Currently on the bench

The Merit name has been on burn-in repair sticks for the better part of a century — the heated-knife sticks restorers melt into a gouge or a dent and level flush, until the repair disappears into the surface around it. The recipes trace back to a finishing supply of the 1930s and have been carried carefully through the decades since. This is the kind of repair conservators, luthiers, and antique restorers turn to when the work has to be done the way it has always been done.

A Merit stick is natural shellac at heart — no acrylics, no plastic resins. Because it is shellac, the repair stays reversible: it can be lifted or redone years later without harming the original surface, where a plastic stick fuses for good. On a piece meant to outlive its owner, that distinction is the whole point.

Right now the Merit line is on the bench, between batches — we would rather get the next one right than rush it. Leave us your address below and we will write the day the sticks are back.

Pure, uncut, genuine.