I made a desk out of red oak, stained it with minwax ebony (3 coats, each about 30 mins long). applied 5+ coats of poly. that was months ago.
i recently decided i didn't like the open grain and bumpiness of the red oak, so i thought i would sand off the poly and apply some grain filler.
I sanded off the poly with 220 and a sanding block by hand. I burnt through the finish and stain in some places as you can see from the first picture.
Photo Jul 07, 4 11 03 PM.jpg
I thought I could just re-stain the parts where I sanded through, but after about 4 applications of stain, each sitting for 30ish minutes, the areas just don't seem to be absorbing the stain, and I don't understand why.
this picture is after the 4 coats of stain.
Photo Jul 07, 7 23 38 PM.jpg