Today was a day full of sanding, basically wake up sand, eat , sand , sand , eat , sand , sand , sand , finish! and eat some more. Figured i'd go over how we sand a custom rocking chair.
Our process goes like thisGrinder - 120 grit - 150 grit - 220 grit - 320 grit - 400 grit - abralon 500 grit, burnish with wool pad.
Okay when you type it out it does not seem like much work, but let
me tell you it is!! Above 220 we like to hand sand everything, we feel
like the piece has a more organic flowing natural lines so soft to the
touch, that every time you feel the chair it's a surprise.
Every person that happens to come by at this stage gets to experiance the most exciting times durng the chair build, first it's all sanded ready for finish, one more quick seat of course. And second the transformation from bare wood to the grain popping hand rubbed oil finish.
Here is a close up of the hand carved seat on this custom rocking chair that has been burnished with a wool pad after going through the grinding and sanding procedure. It's sure is nice when the chair starts to get to this stage, you kinda do areas of the chair to completion until it all comes together as a wonderful glowing chair even before we put the finish on.
Before and after the first coat of oil / poly finish has been rubbed
down, now we let dry for 2 days, and repeat a total of 6 times, all the
hard work really pays off in the end.
Thanks all for coming by to have a look at our custom rocking chair - design and build blog, as always your feed back is much appreciated so if you have any requests on what were posting on here send us a msg. We will have more detailed pictures of this rocking chair up shortly.