I'm seeing lots of good info on what to use for color fill, but I don't
think that's what you were asking. Your box is already engraved,
the box is porous wood and whatever you put on it will get into
the pores and look funky. Can you use anything to protect the porous
parts of the wood before using something to color fill?
The best way to do it is to laser through transfer tape and do the
color fill before removing the tape. But you're already past that
point.
You could also do the fill as carefully as you can, and try to wipe
away any excess, but frankly I've never had luck doing that. Those
rosewood (usually a paduak, not rosewood) boxes have plenty of
places for the color to get into and get stuck there. Using any type
of solvent usually takes off the box's finish.
You might try wiping on a thin coating of wax, but it would be
difficult to keep it out of the engraved areas. But if you could
manage to keep it out, then you could carefully spray the color
into the engraved areas and wipe everything else off when it dries.
But that would be difficult.
I've also seen liquid resist products offered that will let you paint on
the resist, fill in your paint, then remove the resist. But .. you run
into the same problem .. how do you keep the resist out of the
engraved areas?
It's a tough one, Darrell ... This is really something that should have
been decided before the engraving was done. If you talk to your
engrave about it, perhaps they don't understand what you need yet.
Once they know, they could send your engraved items back to you
with the transfer tape still on. (or do the fill for you)