Hey Muzza, yep, you will find it will pop the grain.
With the stain coat, you can go mental and keep applying it until the timber won't absorb any more.
If after that you still have some left, give it 24 hours and go again.

let it cure for a few days and then apply the first coat of intensifyer.

Now for the good news, you are officially one of our beta testers for MKII.
Drying times are greatly reduced so that should make life easier.

So that makes two beta testers, anyone else game enough to put their hand up?
We will be shipping it out early next weekish.