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Stan, glad to know I could help.

Art, the reason for complicating the process was having to patch in new parquet and making it match the 30 year old parquet. Otherwise we likely would've done what...

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That satin poly was a mistake - took the beauty right out of the floor. We went over the satin with an oil-based gloss poly and it looks as good as it did with just the shellac...

Thanks. Sanded it down to bare wood working up to 120 grit. We were using a square floor buffer since we had no experience with the drum sander and didn't want to create ruts in the floor, but ~650...

Hi all,

I'm new to the forum. Been coming across it for years though, looking into different aspects of woodworking. Mainly stain and polyurethane - although I'd really like to get into wood dyes...