Waz's MMB-4

[FrankenWashie]

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

[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.

[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.