Kim Jamieson Friday 12th of April Kim Jamieson Saturday 6th of April My favorite way to remove the sawdust is to use a soft bristled brush to sweep off the bulk of the sawdust. I've updated the post to include a link to it under the Types of Sanding Tools section. My sander and I have a love hate relationship. Stiles Machinery offers the Heesemann Mqchine widebelt sander with one to six heads for sanding lacquer, veneer and solid wood up best wood sanding machine learning in. Or if you are buying a premium piece of wood mahine is in really good condition, you learnign sometimes get best wood sanding machine learning with doing less sanding and just use one or two higher grit sandpapers, rather than 3 different grits explained in step 2 below.

We bought a refinished farmhouse style table with 2 extra leafs last fall. Unfortunately, when we got it home we realized that the off-gassing smell was so strong that we could not even bring it into the house. We decided to refinish it ourselves. We had a few warmish days before winter, so we stripped off the top finish with a paint stripper, but then the weather was too cold to work in the garage until recently.

The problem I have though is how to sand the routered edges of the table top. There is a second layer of wood beneath the top, about 3" wide around the edge, so some stain is in that crevice too.

I have tried a sanding sponge, but it takes so long, and so much effort and the sponges don't last long. I have tried sanding by hand with a 40 grit and using a kitchen sponge inside the sandpaper, but again it takes SO much time and energy. I have tried using the orbital sander with a lower grade of sandpaper, but it is hard to hold it at a 90 degree angle for long I still have SO much of the edging to sand though!

We live in Canada. We have tried many of the local tool supply stores, woodworking supply stores, home depot type stores, but so far, nothing helpful has surfaced! We are also trying to make a final decision on a finish. It will initially be a stain, but we want to be sure that the top protective coat is low VOC so that we are not running into the same problem that started all this extra work! Do you have any recommendations for such a product??

I am very sensitive to chemical smells. By the way, I am learning a lot and, most of the time, I am enjoying the process, other than the fact that it takes so long and we have to park our vehicle elsewhere for as long as the table is being refinished in the garage! You're welcome Kim! For those tiny crevices, I recommend using a Dremel Rotary tool with a sanding attachment.

I've updated the post to include a link to it under the Types of Sanding Tools section. We used it to sand old stain off the small, turned table legs of our side table. They have different size sanding attachments you can use. Also, if you're going to add a polyurethane for a top coat, I would use a water based poly as well over the water based stain. Hope that helps a little! With random orbital sander, I start with or 80 grit.

Then use to grit, then , then use either 1, to 2, grit. Then the wood is sooooo slick when feeling of it. I rarely use stain. Preference is Spar Urethane with a very light grit sanding by hand before the 2nd coat..

Then apply the 2nd coat. If the wood is really rough, I first use a belt sander with grit. A more coarse grit leaves deep scratches that take a while to remove. I have wondered why some start with grit and go through grits gradually removing scratches. I feel that is wasting time. Hey Marvin. You don't have delamination issues with the urethane when sanding wood to ? Urethane usually needs some "tooth" to stick properly.

By the time you hit you're no longer sanding, you're polishing. I never sand beyond for clear or for stain. Once the clear is shot and cured then I do the rest of what you're talking about. Smooth typically comes from sanding the clear coat and not the wood. If it's solvent based lacquer you don't necessarily HAVE to sand between coats since each coat burns into the next, but I find the next step goes a little quicker if I do.

Then a wet sand and buff schedule that suits the sheen you're trying to achieve in either case. That was very informative. My sander and I have a love hate relationship. I swear I can never get those squiggly lines out after I sand. I love how this is very detailed and has lots of clear pictures. Great job on this one. Hi Tammy. Those squiggly lines happen typically for two reasons. This usually happens when sanding off a clear coat and not really with raw wood.

If you lift the paper you will see hard spots of finish that have coagulated, clogging up the paper. Depending on how much builds up they can leave lines. Try moving your sander along the wood at about an inch per second. It will feel slow at first but that's about the correct speed.

Do this and those squiggles should disappear for you. Also doesn't hurt to make sure you don't have any foreign matter on the wood before you start sanding. An orbital will drag anything hard along with it and leave marks. That sounds obvious, I know, but it's always worth cleaning off the surface before sanding to make sure. Compressed air is best if you have it. A lint free cloth is fine if you don't.

My Web Stories. Why Wood Needs to Be Sanded You may be wondering, do you really need to sand wood before staining or do you have to sand before painting? Types of Sanders There are many different types of sanders and sanding tools available for sanding wood. Orbital Palm Sander I highly recommend an orbital palm sander for most wood projects, which is a very efficient and affordable sanding tool. Sanding Block or Sandpaper For light sanding, you can hand sand with just a piece of sanding paper they come in sheets , or sandpaper wrapped around a small piece of wood, or a sanding block.

Belt Sander If your wood needs a lot of heavy duty sanding, a belt sander may be a good tool to start with and they are often available for rent or purchase at home improvement stores. Pick your different Sandpaper grits Sandpaper ranges in different grits from very coarse sandpaper, like 60 grit, to very fine grit sandpaper, like grit or grit. Start with a coarse grit sandpaper Start with a rough grit sandpaper, such as 80 grit.

Here is a photo showing half of the wood sanded with just 80 grit sandpaper: 4. Use a medium grit sandpaper Next, use a medium grit sandpaper, such a grit or grit, to start to smooth the surface of the wood. Finish sanding with a fine grit sandpaper Finally, finish sanding with a finer grit sandpaper, such as grit. Wood After Sanding. Wood Before Sanding. Tools Orbital Palm Sander. Instructions Set up your workspace and wear sanding dust protection. Pick your different sandpaper grits.

Start with a rough sandpaper grit, such as 80 grit, and begin to sand the wood. This will take the longest and remove the most amount of the material. It can break edges and open the grain for stain with a or grit flatter strip. To sealer sand, change strips to a grit. Key patented features include: an ISA floating, segmented platen for perfectly sanded edges, says the company, and the CBF system for fine finishing. The LCE is capable of planing, general sanding, fine finishing and sealer sanding.

Northtech Machinery offers brush sanders in a variety of configurations. The company says models are available with brushes, with wire brush systems and denibbing heads also offered. Custom machines are also available. Features include abrasive belt mistrack limit switches, double infeed and outfeed hold-down rolls. Midwest Sandright manufactures the Patriot line of wide belt sanders with one-, two- or three-head configurations and offering 4 to 8 hours, 8 to 16 hours, or continuous operation per day.

Also available are Titan abrasive planers, Tomahawk planer sanders and Explorer custom sanding machines. Safety Speed Mfg. The company also offers the Model for smaller production requirements. Arminius Tooling offers profile sanding tools for decorative grooves, profiled edges, panel raising, etc. Unique Machine and Tool offers the Shape and Sand machine with two hp direct drive variable speed floating shapers and 2-hp floating and tilting sanding.

Oliver Machinery says its Model in. It also has a hp motor, cast-iron base, 4-post table construction and twin 4-in. Felder says the Format 4 Finish widebelt sander features a pressure bar module and combination module with a segmented electro-pneumatic sanding pad, automatic thickness measurement and blow-off facility.

Casadei Busellato offers the Libra 35 TC sanding machine, featuring a 43 in. The Libra 35 TC can sand and calibrate solid wood panels such as cabinet doors or face frames, in addition to the light sanding of veneer, with the segmented platen and anti-dubbing feature. Voorwood offers the Model CNC feed-through shaper-sander for shaping and sanding all components of a five-piece door.

The machine features an automatic tool change and positioning and the ability to stack up to 15 tools per station with HSK 63F toolholders. Doucet offers PMC non-oscillating edge sanders featuring a 6-in. Model features a in. The machine also comes equipped with a magnetic starter, adjustable beds and a full tracking unit.

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