As a grandmother who has had zero instruction and some "Willy Nilly" tries at assorted furniture projects, I cannot express enough how helpful your video was for me! I'm hooked! Thank you!
Thank so much for taking the time to create and post this video!! I have a self-done home reno project coming up and this is going to be so helpful. Sanding seems like such a simple task, but you've shown how to do it right, and that is super appreciated. Your teaching method, pace, and speech are great!
I know a lot of folks really dislike sanding, but for me it's very therapeutic. I actually like the sanding process, working with the wood, to bring out the beauty. Ver informative video, thank you for sharing.
WigWagWorkshop I can see how sanding could be therapeutic, I guess I find woodworking in general the same. Thanks for commenting, always love hearing from others ... thanks buddy
I feel like I would enjoy sand a whoooollle lot more if it wasn't metal I'm sanding. I'm a blacksmith and putting a hand finish on metal takes a lot of paper.
i have done the odd bit of sanding over the years but only in recent times have begun to appreciate some of the subtlties that exist which you explain here great teachings thank you.
I appreciate the effort on these beginners series. Something as simple as sanding is something experienced wood workers probably take for granted, but if you are new you need to learn it too :)
***** Yes, you are absolutely correct, we are finding there are hundreds of new woodworkers who just need a wee bit of info on certain topics to help them along ... thanks for commenting, great to hear !! Colin
Appreciate the video, great information, even for someone with over three decades of experience like myself. I have a few minor disagreements with a few points, but aside from occasional custom furniture, heirloom quality knives, or random special projects, I am primarily building custom electric guitars, and basses (as well as instrument accessories and instrument related items, including an ever expanding lineup of gauging or measuring instrumentation, templates, tooling, jigs, and fixtures, for instrument building, but also for mire general use applications in woodworking, and metalworking shops). In this shop, we use a lot of domestic and exotic figured woods, plus spalted and burled woods, regularly. Between the variety of grain structure, grain characteristics, variation in oil content, tendencies of some of these woods to, "behave," differently when stained, dyed, have various paint pigments applied, wet/dry sanded during various stages of finishing, and when applying sanding sealants, lacquers, different poly-, or poly- blend, finishes, or various oil finishes, it's very much been a "learn as you go" experience, doing what research I can, trying to apply lessons learned on something that seems similar, and then just do it (making sure to take VERY thorough, very detailed notes as I go).
Watching this I finally figured out why I have an issue with wood taking stain. I always go up to 220 before I apply stain... oops! Thanks for the info...
excellent. glad i have come across you : ) you have a passion for your work and your words are true and full of wisdom gained through decades of experience. this is what youtube was designed for. sharing knowledge. just found some two dozen fence palings, they are 5.8 ft long and by 3 and 5 inches wide and 1.5 inch thick. thinking of planing them first then start off with an 80 then 120 and after that paint the same colour i have left over from when the house was painted and we got to keep a bucket of each colour in the house. gonna make shelves for cosmetics and such for the bathroom so these shelves are going to be 5 inches deep. how would i sand them ? that is why i came. but remembering back from year 7 high school we used a plane to even out the coarse wood then used rough sand paper then thinner and thinner until was smooth enough to paint. anyhow i digress. quite. jolly good show.
Robert Matter Some woodworkers do that, I seldom do. As you know water makes the wood fibers expand a bit which roughens up the wood a tiny bit, then another final sanding is often require, which I am sure you do. I guess it depends how much water you use as well doesn't it. Hmmm, you have me thinking on this maybe this is something I should experiment with as well ... thanks Robert, always good to hear your comments :) Colin
great tips! I love your channel, I have just bought my first jigsaw and sander and I can't wait to start putting your ideas to work. My first project will be shelves for my bathroom. Good luck to me! :D
WoodWorkWeb I have actually just finished making my shelves. It was so much easier and faster to work with power tools... duh lol. My sander had a tiny vacuum bag so I didn't get a big mess. My jigsaw had an outlet where I was able to connect my Hoover vacuum cleaner so no sawdust, either! I have to anchor my shelves to the wall and I am trying to figure out an easy solution, but I've had so much fun. Thanks for all your amazing tips and for sharing your knowledge, it was the first time I ever used these tools and I felt confident doing it after watching your vids. best regards!
Great tips Colin! I use the chamfer technique as well with the orbital sander. I will randomly vary the angle along the edge sometimes to give a more rustic less even look.
Colin, I know this is an oldie tutorial, but thanks anyway! Excellent, short and clear intro to finishing. I'm on the verge of buying the Makita 18v random orb' sander to finish some scaffold boards I'll be making a bookcase with. I'd appreciate a similar tutorial on best finishes to apply.
Hi . We are cutting syp logs and pine catches blue Stains / fungus and makes it tough to sell . Please advise on how best this can be avoided . Been following you since long and happy to learn .
Hi. Awesome video! I need to sand wooden discs with a diameter of 5 cm for a memory game. Do you have any suggestions on what tools and supplies I would need to use to have a smooth finish? I will be transferring images on them.
Marie Ramos just some sand paper with the grits he had in the video. If the discs are too thin to secure in place, you could attach/glue the paper to a flat surface and rub the discs onto it. Also, rather than having a perfectly smooth finish, having a slightly rough finish allows whatever you're using to attach the images to the discs something to grip to.
New to woodworking and this was a great video. Now I'm working with pine and building a pottery bench. I have two questions: 1. Should I sand everything before I put it together? 2. When you say I should progress, does that mean I should sand it all with one grit, then sand the entire thing again with another grit all the way to the 150 grit limit? Basically sanding five times if I'm going from 60 to 150.
Hi, very good overview, just one question, with the rotating paper sanding "against/alongside the grain", how would that work? With the bandsander or any back-forth motion is obvious, but with the rotation disc ?
Hi I love your videos!! I recently purchased a small piece of rosewood as I plan to make it into a clock. The problem I have is the wood turns black as I sand it. Some people told me it's carbon formation caused by heat during the sanding process but I doubt. Can anyone advise on how to get rid of those black marks pls? Smoothing? Thanks all
hi, I got a sanding problem - I'm making coasters out of squate tiles 8cmx8cm 8mm thick. I want to make them flat and smooth but i end up with corners geting noticably thiner. Is there a way to sand them without oversanding corners?
Hey Colin I immediately noticed you’re Canadian. The second thing I noticed is that your surname is Dutch! Knecht is a helper, an assistant, but is cognate with the English word ‘knight’. Zwarte piet is de knecht van Sinterklaas.
I didn’t know I was overdoing it by going to 320, on everything. And I hate stain because it never sticks. Haha. You are saying it’s Operator error, not product error. I am addicted to your channel. Hey, you didn’t tell us grit for between paint coats.
does sanding lighten up the wood? I have a table that is kind of raw looking and thought some oil would be nice so I wipped the table with orange oil and beeswax and what it did is darken the table, that was not my intention and it also brought up scratched parts as it settled in the tables fine lines, that being said I was devastaded, trying to remove what had been done I wiped the table down with vinegar, and although it helped, it was too late as the table had darken hues and the scratches didnt go anywhere, so I am thinking to myself, maybe the oil didnt go down too deep, maybe if i get a sander with a low grit paper and lightly resand the table it will remove and re establish the table to its original color? any tips, advice?
I just subscribed and have learned some useful things. The one thing I'm trying to figure out is out to cut down a fresh 22 inch cedar log to where I can safely run it through the table saw to get a couple of boards off it. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Terri in Arkansas. Thank you and really like your video's .
Terri Kelley A chainsaw and mill guide rail would be much much better for getting boards from a log. Look up some videos of chainsaw mill guides. Basically, they're just rails put atop a log that span the whole length of it that you attach a chainsaw to the underside of to cut the length of the log smooth and level
Colin, when would be more appropriate to use sandpapers, planes, tempered steel sheets or other methods? _(sorry for my deficient vocabulary, I'm a layman and English is not my primary language)_ Thank you!
Nelson Baietti Great question Nelson, normally sand papers would be used after planing and tempered sheets or what we call "scrapers" are used on figured wood, which has grain running in many different directions, which makes it hard to sand without loosing some of the features of the figure.
I want to make a dugout pipe that resembles a cigar so I can use CBD without drawing undue attention. What techniques and sanding grit could I use to get that rolled tobacco leaf look good sir?
I want to remove the paint on an old end table that I assume is from Wal-Mart. I'm trying to turn it into a cats bunk bed. I don't have any power tools but I can probably use sandpaper if I can find some and try to get the old paint off right? I wanted to paint a scenery on it
Thanks for answering. Well i painted it yesterday. And it was my first time painting furniture. I am not even sure i used the correct paint. Oops. But i ended up having an unleveled coat of paint on the top surface as well as runny surface on the right and left side. Now it is half way dry. Plz give me ur advice how to fix this. If i sand after it completely dries, what should i do?
Im 21 years and all I can say is I appreciate everything you do! Thank you!
As a grandmother who has had zero instruction and some "Willy Nilly" tries at assorted furniture projects, I cannot express enough how helpful your video was for me! I'm hooked! Thank you!
I am not getting enough watching your videos again and again..
Thanks..
I am into weeks into a project of sanding down wood. I am so grateful for youtube and this guy right here. I am really enjoying this new hobby.
Colin, as always you impart a great deal of information in 5 short minutes. Thanks for all your work on this series.
keyboardjedi Thanks for taking a moment to comment :)
Thank so much for taking the time to create and post this video!! I have a self-done home reno project coming up and this is going to be so helpful. Sanding seems like such a simple task, but you've shown how to do it right, and that is super appreciated. Your teaching method, pace, and speech are great!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thank you Colin for all that you do. I always pickup something out of your videos, such as only using 220 grit on plywood.
I know a lot of folks really dislike sanding, but for me it's very therapeutic. I actually like the sanding process, working with the wood, to bring out the beauty. Ver informative video, thank you for sharing.
WigWagWorkshop I can see how sanding could be therapeutic, I guess I find woodworking in general the same. Thanks for commenting, always love hearing from others ... thanks buddy
Excellent presentation! The blackboard is still best quite often. Gifted teacher. Dedication shows. : )
For not knowing anything about sanding this is perfect! Very well explained! Love the diagrams & visuals. It makes it so much easier to remember!
Hope it helps! Thanks for watching!
I might be weird but I love sanding. thank you for all your great videos.
A LOT of people enjoy sanding ... you're not alone. Thanks for watching!
I feel like I would enjoy sand a whoooollle lot more if it wasn't metal I'm sanding.
I'm a blacksmith and putting a hand finish on metal takes a lot of paper.
Dario Montoya me too!!!!
Your definitely weird. Everybody hates sanding lol
He, he...I like it, too!
Thank you very much for teaching us.
Hello and peace from Syria.
Hi Max. Al-salamü ‘alayküm! We Latter-day Saints feel very fond of you Muslims 💛 🕌 🕋 🙏🏽
i have done the odd bit of sanding over the years but only in recent times have begun to appreciate some of the subtlties that exist which you explain here great teachings thank you.
wow ... u r too good at explaining in detail I am a beginner in wood working n really wait to watch u explain ... thanks a ton
Thanks for watching!
What a BRILLIANT video. Thank you Colin
Learned a lot in just 5 minutes. Thank you!
hello from denmark, scandinavia.. a great sanding refreshing my memory, and also learning something new,, thanks
Thanks for info! First-time sander!! This was so helpful...
I appreciate the effort on these beginners series. Something as simple as sanding is something experienced wood workers probably take for granted, but if you are new you need to learn it too :)
***** Yes, you are absolutely correct, we are finding there are hundreds of new woodworkers who just need a wee bit of info on certain topics to help them along ... thanks for commenting, great to hear !!
Colin
Thank you sir. Learned a thing or two about sanding. Much appreciated!
Fantastic presentation!
I from Malaysia..
Thanks sir for the tips..
Thanks a lot for this techniques
You are always my inspiration🤔
I like your voice and the way you explain
Timeless lesson. Thanks!
Im fairly new to woodworking. always wanted to just didn't have money for tools and your videos are extremely informative. thank you sir
Appreciate the video, great information, even for someone with over three decades of experience like myself.
I have a few minor disagreements with a few points, but aside from occasional custom furniture, heirloom quality knives, or random special projects, I am primarily building custom electric guitars, and basses (as well as instrument accessories and instrument related items, including an ever expanding lineup of gauging or measuring instrumentation, templates, tooling, jigs, and fixtures, for instrument building, but also for mire general use applications in woodworking, and metalworking shops).
In this shop, we use a lot of domestic and exotic figured woods, plus spalted and burled woods, regularly. Between the variety of grain structure, grain characteristics, variation in oil content, tendencies of some of these woods to, "behave," differently when stained, dyed, have various paint pigments applied, wet/dry sanded during various stages of finishing, and when applying sanding sealants, lacquers, different poly-, or poly- blend, finishes, or various oil finishes, it's very much been a "learn as you go" experience, doing what research I can, trying to apply lessons learned on something that seems similar, and then just do it (making sure to take VERY thorough, very detailed notes as I go).
Thanks Colin, very well done!
Enrique Lolli-Dyer Thanks again for taking the time
Colin
You explain how to sand very well i have rough wood and i was told just to sand you have explained to me well done
Valuable lesson..thank you
I really enjoyed watching this video. I am off to try champer on my table legs. I might be able to make it look more rustic - hopefully.
Watching this I finally figured out why I have an issue with wood taking stain. I always go up to 220 before I apply stain... oops! Thanks for the info...
👍
Don't think I'll ever have to apply this but was fascinating to learn about ^^
karenroxs1234 Well ... that's cool, we still appreciate you taking the time to comment :)
excellent. glad i have come across you : ) you have a passion for your work and your words are true and full of wisdom gained through decades of experience. this is what youtube was designed for. sharing knowledge. just found some two dozen fence palings, they are 5.8 ft long and by 3 and 5 inches wide and 1.5 inch thick. thinking of planing them first then start off with an 80 then 120 and after that paint the same colour i have left over from when the house was painted and we got to keep a bucket of each colour in the house. gonna make shelves for cosmetics and such for the bathroom so these shelves are going to be 5 inches deep. how would i sand them ? that is why i came. but remembering back from year 7 high school we used a plane to even out the coarse wood then used rough sand paper then thinner and thinner until was smooth enough to paint. anyhow i digress. quite.
jolly good show.
Very helpful! . Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Your videos are great! Thanks!!
Do you have a video on some useful techniques I can apply at work to eliminate cross grain? Thank you. Great channel by the way.
thank you very much i keep watching your videos everyday and learn :)
This is very helpful, thank you.
very interesting especially for biginners like me from India
Excellent video (as usual). Now, would you recommend to wet the wood after the first sanding as I usually do ?
Robert Matter Some woodworkers do that, I seldom do. As you know water makes the wood fibers expand a bit which roughens up the wood a tiny bit, then another final sanding is often require, which I am sure you do. I guess it depends how much water you use as well doesn't it. Hmmm, you have me thinking on this maybe this is something I should experiment with as well ... thanks Robert, always good to hear your comments :)
Colin
Very important vid for sanding freaks like me.... Thanks very much!
Very useful indeed. Many thanks.
Thanks Mark
Any advice for leveling stringers with a orbital sander?
Very good video, step by step. I like it!!!
I love your videos .
Thanks!
great tips! I love your channel, I have just bought my first jigsaw and sander and I can't wait to start putting your ideas to work. My first project will be shelves for my bathroom. Good luck to me! :D
Thanks for watching. Good look with your shelves and let me know how they turn out!
WoodWorkWeb I have actually just finished making my shelves. It was so much easier and faster to work with power tools... duh lol. My sander had a tiny vacuum bag so I didn't get a big mess. My jigsaw had an outlet where I was able to connect my Hoover vacuum cleaner so no sawdust, either! I have to anchor my shelves to the wall and I am trying to figure out an easy solution, but I've had so much fun. Thanks for all your amazing tips and for sharing your knowledge, it was the first time I ever used these tools and I felt confident doing it after watching your vids. best regards!
Great info Colin.
Derek
GiddyUp994 Thanks Derek ... been away for a bit, getting back into the swing again now ... well, slowly anyway
Yay my woodwork teacher is going to think i pay attention thanks to your videos
lol ... I'm glad glad the video helped you Raina. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the info 👍🏻
Great tips Colin! I use the chamfer technique as well with the orbital sander. I will randomly vary the angle along the edge sometimes to give a more rustic less even look.
McGinn's WoodShop Good tip, thanks for posting, I will try that :)
Colin
Very informative video!
Thanks for the note ...
Thanks for the great tips!
You're Welcome!
Thanks a lot for teaching us !!!
You're Welcome!
Colin, I know this is an oldie tutorial, but thanks anyway! Excellent, short and clear intro to finishing. I'm on the verge of buying the Makita 18v random orb' sander to finish some scaffold boards I'll be making a bookcase with. I'd appreciate a similar tutorial on best finishes to apply.
Now if you want to sand a gun stock so smooth to apply Tru Oil,what grit would you use? Thanks for your video.
Hi . We are cutting syp logs and pine catches blue Stains / fungus and makes it tough to sell . Please advise on how best this can be avoided . Been following you since long and happy to learn .
As always very informative and detailed, thanks for your videos.
***** Thanks Peter !!
This was very helpful. Thank you.
+Michael Wacht Thanks for taking to give feedback ... I appreciate it
awesome Information! thank you!
thank you for the knowledge.. very useful..
Thank you!
Very nice explained
What about after stains and sealers? For veneers and solid wood
And there I am, using 600 grits for a piece of wood. It ends up so smooth and bright, even brighter than my future
Everything is brighter then my future
I use 1200
This is excellent advice! Thanks
Hi. Awesome video! I need to sand wooden discs with a diameter of 5 cm for a memory game. Do you have any suggestions on what tools and supplies I would need to use to have a smooth finish? I will be transferring images on them.
Marie Ramos just some sand paper with the grits he had in the video. If the discs are too thin to secure in place, you could attach/glue the paper to a flat surface and rub the discs onto it. Also, rather than having a perfectly smooth finish, having a slightly rough finish allows whatever you're using to attach the images to the discs something to grip to.
New to woodworking and this was a great video. Now I'm working with pine and building a pottery bench. I have two questions:
1. Should I sand everything before I put it together?
2. When you say I should progress, does that mean I should sand it all with one grit, then sand the entire thing again with another grit all the way to the 150 grit limit? Basically sanding five times if I'm going from 60 to 150.
1 yes
2 yes
Amazing tips, helped me with my questions!
Hi, very good overview, just one question, with the rotating paper sanding "against/alongside the grain", how would that work? With the bandsander or any back-forth motion is obvious, but with the rotation disc ?
This was great, thanks!
Thanks very much, Sir.
Could you please explain how changing the speed settings of the RO sander Impact the end result? Thanks
just subscribed, thank you for great advices
Hi I love your videos!!
I recently purchased a small piece of rosewood as I plan to make it into a clock.
The problem I have is the wood turns black as I sand it. Some people told me it's carbon formation caused by heat during the sanding process but I doubt.
Can anyone advise on how to get rid of those black marks pls? Smoothing?
Thanks all
another great video
hi, I got a sanding problem - I'm making coasters out of squate tiles 8cmx8cm 8mm thick. I want to make them flat and smooth but i end up with corners geting noticably thiner. Is there a way to sand them without oversanding corners?
Very informative
Amazing explanation sir. Thanks a lot!
Hey Colin I immediately noticed you’re Canadian. The second thing I noticed is that your surname is Dutch!
Knecht is a helper, an assistant, but is cognate with the English word ‘knight’.
Zwarte piet is de knecht van Sinterklaas.
Really good explanation. Thank you sir
I didn’t know I was overdoing it by going to 320, on everything. And I hate stain because it never sticks. Haha. You are saying it’s Operator error, not product error. I am addicted to your channel. Hey, you didn’t tell us grit for between paint coats.
So how ya know when yer done sandin anyway?
Good information thanks
very informative. big thanks
Leo Kruk Thanks for taking a moment to comment Leo
thanks for the tips i made my dad a chair he loves it
For removing router marks on live edge slabs, is a belt sander more appropriate? Or orbital sander is good enough?
does sanding lighten up the wood? I have a table that is kind of raw looking and thought some oil would be nice so I wipped the table with orange oil and beeswax and what it did is darken the table, that was not my intention and it also brought up scratched parts as it settled in the tables fine lines, that being said I was devastaded, trying to remove what had been done I wiped the table down with vinegar, and although it helped, it was too late as the table had darken hues and the scratches didnt go anywhere, so I am thinking to myself, maybe the oil didnt go down too deep, maybe if i get a sander with a low grit paper and lightly resand the table it will remove and re establish the table to its original color? any tips, advice?
I just subscribed and have learned some useful things. The one thing I'm trying to figure out is out to cut down a fresh 22 inch cedar log to where I can safely run it through the table saw to get a couple of boards off it. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Terri in Arkansas. Thank you and really like your video's .
Terri Kelley A chainsaw and mill guide rail would be much much better for getting boards from a log. Look up some videos of chainsaw mill guides.
Basically, they're just rails put atop a log that span the whole length of it that you attach a chainsaw to the underside of to cut the length of the log smooth and level
Uma ótimo trabalho !!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for commenting :)
Colin, when would be more appropriate to use sandpapers, planes, tempered steel sheets or other methods?
_(sorry for my deficient vocabulary, I'm a layman and English is not my primary language)_
Thank you!
Nelson Baietti Great question Nelson, normally sand papers would be used after planing and tempered sheets or what we call "scrapers" are used on figured wood, which has grain running in many different directions, which makes it hard to sand without loosing some of the features of the figure.
I want to make a dugout pipe that resembles a cigar so I can use CBD without drawing undue attention. What techniques and sanding grit could I use to get that rolled tobacco leaf look good sir?
use 420 grit
how about when bounding hardwood strips to plywood, what's the best grade sand paper to use then?
Can you start at 220 and go higher I'm a beginner
oh thank you kind sir for this video
I want to remove the paint on an old end table that I assume is from Wal-Mart. I'm trying to turn it into a cats bunk bed. I don't have any power tools but I can probably use sandpaper if I can find some and try to get the old paint off right? I wanted to paint a scenery on it
Sandpaper and some time will work just fine!
thank you sir....
Good video and come and sort out my dye doors
Can i sand a newly painted piece of furniture to remove paint runs from the sides and unleveled paint job to fix?
When you say newly painted, is it wet or dry??, I would not sand until the paint was dry then do your touch-ups.
Thanks for answering. Well i painted it yesterday. And it was my first time painting furniture. I am not even sure i used the correct paint. Oops. But i ended up having an unleveled coat of paint on the top surface as well as runny surface on the right and left side. Now it is half way dry. Plz give me ur advice how to fix this. If i sand after it completely dries, what should i do?
Thanks very much :)
+nicolò tuppo Thank you for commenting