Thanks guys, I did the burst with Feast Watson’s timber stain in “Jarrah” . I diluted the color with feast Watson’s color reducer for the main color and tested it on an old bit of pine. I didn’t want to do a burst but the color wouldn’t penetrate the glue spots ,so I went full color around the edges with a cloth a couple of times and blended the edges with the color reducer and it still didn’t cover the glue spots. So I got some varnish that was tinted to the same color and used a small brush to touch up the glue spots before 10 coats of wipe on poly. I also masked up the centre join in the top and gave that a coat of the varnish and it worked a treat.
This kit has been a bit of cow to work on, with glue spots on the top, and it also had some bad ripples in the flame maple veneer and the binding was really badly cracked in places as if it had been knocked, which got stain in and is now a rustic feature. But I loved every moment of it so far. These things add character to it.