Dave Jurek
12-16-2007, 9:06 PM
Man, I'm beginning to really love finishing!! I was almost complete with my polyurethaning my table and I sanded down too aggressively using 400 grit paper with a sanding block. When I put the next layer of poly down, I could see the sanding marks. I ended up having to sand it back down to correct this oversanding. In my ill efforts to correct, I did end up sanding thru the polyurethane taking off some of the stain off. In an attempt to localize the repair, I put some stripper on the effected area, restained it, followed by more poly. Problem is you can distinctively see where I used the stripper. The poly coats are just not blending with the unstripped areas.
I did some more sanding around the border of the stripped to unstripped poly and ended up taking off yet more stain. Seems the more I try to correct this, the more I'm damaging it.
I am almost convinced that a complete strip down of the table top will be the only way that I could get a finished poly coat to look uniform.
The other thing I've noticed is that where I've applied more poly around the (attempted) repair area, there is no shean. Perhaps I applied to quickly after staining but it is very noticable. How do I ensure I don't end up with cloudy poly after all of this.
At any rate, I'm attaching some pictures.
Your thoughts appreciated.
Dave
I did some more sanding around the border of the stripped to unstripped poly and ended up taking off yet more stain. Seems the more I try to correct this, the more I'm damaging it.
I am almost convinced that a complete strip down of the table top will be the only way that I could get a finished poly coat to look uniform.
The other thing I've noticed is that where I've applied more poly around the (attempted) repair area, there is no shean. Perhaps I applied to quickly after staining but it is very noticable. How do I ensure I don't end up with cloudy poly after all of this.
At any rate, I'm attaching some pictures.
Your thoughts appreciated.
Dave