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Filling the pores of wood stock?
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<blockquote data-quote="msalm" data-source="post: 257564" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>Here's another way I find works much faster and turns out just as nice. Wet sand the stock with your wood finish. Work with it in small areas at a time. You will see a muddy looking slurry develop. Go over entire stock in this way leaving that sanding slurry on the stock. Set it in the corner to dry for a few days. After it's dry, do the same wet sanding with the finish again only this time after working an area over, wipe the sanding gunk off the wood. You just want to sand down to the wood, but not into it. You're grain should be filled in one or two applications at the most. After you have the grain filled in, then you can rub light layers of finish on the wood with a very light wet sanding in-between to build up the finish depth.</p><p> </p><p>If doing this from a raw blank with no finish on it your first coat of finish is thinned with mineral spirits and liberally apllied to the wood until it will soak up no more. Then wipe off excess and let dry and start with the above. </p><p> </p><p>It works for me, and I've found it's much faster than the tried and true sanding, apply finish, repeat...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msalm, post: 257564, member: 8863"] Here's another way I find works much faster and turns out just as nice. Wet sand the stock with your wood finish. Work with it in small areas at a time. You will see a muddy looking slurry develop. Go over entire stock in this way leaving that sanding slurry on the stock. Set it in the corner to dry for a few days. After it's dry, do the same wet sanding with the finish again only this time after working an area over, wipe the sanding gunk off the wood. You just want to sand down to the wood, but not into it. You're grain should be filled in one or two applications at the most. After you have the grain filled in, then you can rub light layers of finish on the wood with a very light wet sanding in-between to build up the finish depth. If doing this from a raw blank with no finish on it your first coat of finish is thinned with mineral spirits and liberally apllied to the wood until it will soak up no more. Then wipe off excess and let dry and start with the above. It works for me, and I've found it's much faster than the tried and true sanding, apply finish, repeat... [/QUOTE]
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