Waz's MMB-4

[wazkelly]

I will wait for a few more responses before giving the answer.

It was seriously silky smooth to touch on front & back.

[Adam Barnes]

Hey waz go back and rub with a clean rag and then put more on made the grain pop on mine

[wazkelly]

Cheers Adam, will do another coat shortly.

[wazkelly]

I'm going to say about 120, how close am I?

Hey Frankie, no trip to Spec Savers for you. Well spotted as close ups of the rounded edges still looked a little bit rough and probably gave up the answer.

If this was to be stained the top & bottom were done and ready to go whilst the edges still had a slightly rougher texture however once I had used 180 those edges were too smooth to soak up anything. As I was using TO kept going with 240 and then a very light 320 dusting.

Not trying to be a smart @%#$ but over sanding basswood and thinking it will take a stain don't quite work out. For Ash, yes it does need a bit more work and up to 240 is about as far as I would go to give it best chance to be smooth and still soak up some colour.

I get the impression that a lot of folk skip the hard work required on coarser grits and use finer ones to take off machine marks and scratches and end up polishing without even realising it.

[wazkelly]

Looking good Waz.

Thanks Colin.

[FrankenWashie]

Yep I think that was a factor in the first ex finish fail, getting too heavy handed in the sanding. Easy to do though.

[wazkelly]

On softer woods you do begin to wonder how far to go as the pile of saw dust on the floor begins to mount up.

[wazkelly]

4 coats of TO done so far and starting to show a bit of colour....

[Dedman]

Thats going to look so nice Waz. Is it getting a pick guard or keeping all that lovely wood showing?

[Marcel]

Nice even colour Waz...