If your going for a stain on basswood it's a tight grain what I do I only sand the body to a 120grit paper what that does is help the stain/dye soak in and gives you good colour if you sand to fine it will look washed out, then when you do your topcoat tru-oil, wipe on poly, lacquer gives it more coats so you can fill the grain then sand it with whatever you want
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