I have built many kinds of furniture, and refinished some. The right sander depends on what you are sanding. Some parts are round, or have tight details, some flat and easier to sand. Some places it's easier to just hand sand. I have different kinds of sanders myself. For instance my favorite is random orbital. It leaves few scratch marks. But I also have a belt sander, detail sander, drum sanders, etc. I found an important thing to remember is to gradually use finer and finer grit sandpaper. I usually work mine down to 220 grit.
I'm seriously considering making this twisty side table that I fell in love with here on Hometalk (By Chasing A Dream), but cutting the wood is a bit too ambitious fo...
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We took the old popcorn ceiling off in our livingroom and thought we could just paint it. We fixed some hairline cracks where the joint in the sheetrock are, primed a...
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I am turning the sides of an old wooden crate into a coffee table top. The wood is similar to pallet wood: unfinished and prone to giving splinters. How might I go ab...
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I have built many kinds of furniture, and refinished some. The right sander depends on what you are sanding. Some parts are round, or have tight details, some flat and easier to sand. Some places it's easier to just hand sand. I have different kinds of sanders myself. For instance my favorite is random orbital. It leaves few scratch marks. But I also have a belt sander, detail sander, drum sanders, etc. I found an important thing to remember is to gradually use finer and finer grit sandpaper. I usually work mine down to 220 grit.