Hi. First time poster here...
I am trying unsuccessfully to start finishing some cabinet doors for a bathroom vanity that I am building. This project has many firsts to it for me and I haven't done anything more than a simple coat of poly on previous projects.
I am using Mohawk vinyl sealer and Mohawk solvent based pre-cat gloss lacquer. I want it to be glass smooth when I am complete with it. I tried using BLO and pumice to fill the grain on a scrap piece of wood. Once the BLO dried over night, the pores in the bubinga were left with the white powder residue from the pumice. Putting a coat of sealer on the wood left me with a bunch of tiny white streaks in the grain streaks. So, I determined that won't work for me and I would just apply sealer, sand it down and repeat until the grain was filled with the sealer. I tried that today on the panels for the doors- applied a coat of sealer, waited fifteen to twenty minutes, hand sanded with 220 grit paper, wiped with a paper towel and mineral spirits and then applied another coat of sealer. It dried with streaks of powder residue from sanding underneath the second coat of sealer. I'm assuming I did a far less than thorough job of wiping the powder left from sanding??? I have since sanded with 120 grit using a ROS to get back to raw wood. There is still white powder in the grain. I do not want to sand any further because I do not want to mess up the fit of the door panels. What's my best bet for correcting the issue that I created for myself? I am now thinking I should try Behlen's water based grain filler in hopes that it would pack down on top of the remaining white powder left in the grain. Do you think this would work? How do I prevent this problem in the future? Thanks in advance for your help!
I am trying unsuccessfully to start finishing some cabinet doors for a bathroom vanity that I am building. This project has many firsts to it for me and I haven't done anything more than a simple coat of poly on previous projects.
I am using Mohawk vinyl sealer and Mohawk solvent based pre-cat gloss lacquer. I want it to be glass smooth when I am complete with it. I tried using BLO and pumice to fill the grain on a scrap piece of wood. Once the BLO dried over night, the pores in the bubinga were left with the white powder residue from the pumice. Putting a coat of sealer on the wood left me with a bunch of tiny white streaks in the grain streaks. So, I determined that won't work for me and I would just apply sealer, sand it down and repeat until the grain was filled with the sealer. I tried that today on the panels for the doors- applied a coat of sealer, waited fifteen to twenty minutes, hand sanded with 220 grit paper, wiped with a paper towel and mineral spirits and then applied another coat of sealer. It dried with streaks of powder residue from sanding underneath the second coat of sealer. I'm assuming I did a far less than thorough job of wiping the powder left from sanding??? I have since sanded with 120 grit using a ROS to get back to raw wood. There is still white powder in the grain. I do not want to sand any further because I do not want to mess up the fit of the door panels. What's my best bet for correcting the issue that I created for myself? I am now thinking I should try Behlen's water based grain filler in hopes that it would pack down on top of the remaining white powder left in the grain. Do you think this would work? How do I prevent this problem in the future? Thanks in advance for your help!