Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to finish some oak "trays" I am cutting on a CNC machine. They are about 5" square and about 5/8" thick. I am not very skilled with finishing, but I keep trying. I have tried stain and poly and I've also tried polyshades. The problems I run into are that I've got 6 sides to finish and it seems that I always get overspill on an edge. If I try to wipe the edge to get the overspill then I mess up the freshly done surface that caused the overspill in the first place! My experience with the lighter polyshade has been better. I've been using paper towel to apply it and perhaps I need to get a brush of some type, my problem with that is that I'm not really sure how to take care of a brush. I've got sandpaper of varying smoothness so I've gone from 150 to 220 to 500 trying to smooth it out before finishing. What ideas or tips do you guys have on how I can be successful at this?
Thanks,
Alan