budnder
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For the last several months, my normal finishing process has been to sand 400 & 600, clean with alcohol, then apply a couple of layers of thin CA, then repeat with medium CA, then sand up through the micro mesh grits, then Novus 2, and finally Novus 1. Depending on what it looks like, I might throw another round of thin or medium in if I don't think I've built up enough of a coating.
Tonight I was working with a piece of spalted, stabalized wood that had alot of pin holes and tiny fill issues. Normally I try to fill these with CA right before I make the final passes with my skew, but I either missed them or they didn't emerge until the last pass or two. They showed up when I sanded because the sanding dust filled them in. Instead of cleaning with the alcohol, I just put my CA coats on with the sanding dust on the blank. The sanding dust darkened up when the CA hit it and filled in the holes/cracks nicely.
Maybe it still makes sense to clean the sanding dust off before the last CA application, but I'm thinking that skipping the alcohol cleaning on the first thin application might actually be a benefit.
Anybody else clean or not clean sanding dust before CA?
Tonight I was working with a piece of spalted, stabalized wood that had alot of pin holes and tiny fill issues. Normally I try to fill these with CA right before I make the final passes with my skew, but I either missed them or they didn't emerge until the last pass or two. They showed up when I sanded because the sanding dust filled them in. Instead of cleaning with the alcohol, I just put my CA coats on with the sanding dust on the blank. The sanding dust darkened up when the CA hit it and filled in the holes/cracks nicely.
Maybe it still makes sense to clean the sanding dust off before the last CA application, but I'm thinking that skipping the alcohol cleaning on the first thin application might actually be a benefit.
Anybody else clean or not clean sanding dust before CA?
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