Frustrating! Hope you get a chance on the weekend to do the seal. What’s the wood? The problem is that after a long day working, it’s so tiring to do the fun stuff.
I was mostly working poplar to keep the cost down on the library. In order to maintain the color of the boards, the boards were finished with waxfree shellac, followed by a single coat of Minwax pecan polyshade, followed by a coat of oil based polyurethane. 600 sandpaper left a glassy surface. Poplar absorbs stain like tissue paper and all the lovely grain goes away if you don’t seal first.
It was a dark pine free curbside pick up.
I am upcycling it to weathered beach/blue pine look and will stencil it a bit also. I’m using a warm maple varathane alternately with one I colored with some turquoise paint. Stripping and sanding it took forever and hubs finally had to buy me a rotary sander because I developed shoulder issues from hand sanding. Needless to say, I’m in love with it. Now I want the one with the pointy triangle head and Christmas is coming.
Pretty happy with the look to go in my beach themed bedroom. Hubs is happy cause it was free (I’m using leftover product from previous upcycles). Well except he had to buy me a sander and now I want another one!
But I have a lot of furniture to refinish...