Kerry Medeiros
01-22-2010, 9:47 PM
How many of you are familiar with the situation where you start a personal project, and then it gets "'shelved" while you work on other people's jobs? Oh yeah, and it's months before you get a chance to finish it. See below for my story.
I built a new house last year and built my own cabinets. We were on a deadline to get in so the cabinets were installed minus the doors and drawer fronts. The doors/fronts were built a few months back out of beautiful cherry. Then they got put to the side so that I could continue on a few other jobs that resulted in money coming in rather than the reverse. Now its back to the doors and as I begin to unstack them I notice that they are "sun stained". Whatever portion of the door that was exposed is now considerably darker than the portion of the door that was in the pile. I began sanding the doors where they are darker with 220 but it is having little effect. I could get more aggressive with the sanding but I want to see if there is another solution first. Is there a way to reverse this? What if I leave all the doors exposed to the light? Will it even out over time? Please don't tell the doors are now fire wood.
Any tips?
Kerry
I built a new house last year and built my own cabinets. We were on a deadline to get in so the cabinets were installed minus the doors and drawer fronts. The doors/fronts were built a few months back out of beautiful cherry. Then they got put to the side so that I could continue on a few other jobs that resulted in money coming in rather than the reverse. Now its back to the doors and as I begin to unstack them I notice that they are "sun stained". Whatever portion of the door that was exposed is now considerably darker than the portion of the door that was in the pile. I began sanding the doors where they are darker with 220 but it is having little effect. I could get more aggressive with the sanding but I want to see if there is another solution first. Is there a way to reverse this? What if I leave all the doors exposed to the light? Will it even out over time? Please don't tell the doors are now fire wood.
Any tips?
Kerry