Hi there,
Finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel here. After building 16 kitchen cabinets I have most of my raised panels built and now comes the final coats of finish. I'm doing hard maple and applying the Target Superclear 9000 gloss clear coat, and for finish sanding I used 180 grit for my final sanding of my work, prior to painting, and I am hand applying by brush, using a good quality DaVinci Top-Acryl series acrylic brush that the guy at target recommended if I intend to hand paint.
So my questions are, what is the best size grit paper to use to sand the finish between coats? I was thinking starting with 220 and then go up to maybe 320, but is that too coarse?
I was hoping to get this done with either 3 or 4 coats, is that enough?
Also, for the final polishing or buffing of the final (top) coat, are there any recommendations as to what method or product to use to bring my raised panels and face frames to a nice shiny, polished and smooth finish?
I remember seeing this buffing pad at Woodcraft several months ago, I forgot the name of it, it was billed as a microfine buffing pad to use on a orbital sander to buff out a finish and make a mirror like finish, would that be a good way to go?
Thanks for any insights.