Paul- This idea's a bit from left field, but this method has saved my butt a few times: Buy some acrylic paints- in little bottles from a craft store- then mix up a color that matches the color of the stained wood. Carefully paint the offending areas, let it dry, then seal it all up! My one caution- (and where I REALLY screwed up the last time I did this) is that when you coat the stained wood with epoxy, it will darken up, but the acrylic paint won't. So what looked great may not when you're done. So, I'd recommend that you stain a scrap the right color, then lay a piece of tape down the middle, epoxy one side, pull off the tape, then try to match the coated color. We used this method while fixing up a trimaran a couple of years ago. Several places below decks had plywood edge grain exposed right next to the nice mahogany, and my wife mixed up the right color and basically painted the ply edge, and after we varnished it, the plywood just vanished! I also used the paint to make spots of filler or rust marks disappear. You can fiddle with the color as you work, to lighten or darken it as the grain and color change. People really had to study the repairs to see what we'd done. This was a fairly dark color, which I think is easier than a light color, but it's certainly worth a try. I know it sounds pretty Mickey Mouse, but if you get a good color match, you'll be amazed at the results. Betcha it passes the three foot rule easy! Good luck- Steve