: Got a tip from someone on here a while back to use wood flour mixed with
: water and Elmer's wood glue. Mix up a paste and rub it into the holes...IT
: WORKS GREAT!! I got the wood flour from Flounder Bay and then added some
: fine wood shavings from my left over cedar scraps...the color was nearly
: perfect. Once it dried and was lightly sanded, man you couldn't tell those
: staples had even been there.

I'm glad that worked for you, I advise testing the combo of yellow glue/wood flour on mahogony and redwood. Russ and I tried it and found that if your not real carfull in sanding it completely off you end up with a pale area after epoxying. The yellow glue gets absorbed into the wood somewhat and is difficult to totally sand out. Mixing wood flour with epoxy/cabosil doesn't discoulour as much on the darker woods. I did have good results, like you, using the glue/ flour mix on my basswood kayak though.
Cheers