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Sat, Jun 25, 11 at 12:16
| I'm staining pressure treated pine studs/uprights for a screened-in porch. Do they need to be sanded very smooth first? I already sanded to remove the rough and dangerous bits. I'm not concerned about their being smooth to the touch, just how the stain will look. |
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- Posted by sombreuil_mongrel (My Page) on Sat, Jun 25, 11 at 13:16
| Electric sander of some kind, I hope, for the sake of your arms and shoulders. Depends on the method and what kind of stain. Light stain, I'd say 120 grit with the random-orbit. Dark stain and varnish, straight-line sander to 150. Casey |
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| Thank you, Casey. I do have an orbital sander. But I'll be using dark stain for exteriors. I'm not familiar with a straight line sander. Does it go along the grain? |
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- Posted by bobsmyuncle (My Page) on Sat, Jun 25, 11 at 22:05
| Just don't go overboard with the sanding, SYP has a good deal of variance in density between earlywood and latewood. It's easy to get a rippled texture with over-sanding. There was a thread here a few months back about a piece that had rotary cut pine and was over-sanded and stained dark. Looked terrible, IMO. It's probably not the best sanding dust to breathe, either, hook up a vac to your sander. |
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