My usual finishing process on my bowls is two coats of Formby's Tung Oil Finish (dry 24 hr between coats). These are hand-rubbed. After the second coat dries, I lightly sand with 400 paper and add another coat. Then I do a
4th coat and and sand with 600 wet or dry paper. My main question here is for these final finishing steps, does anyone know the relative fineness of the following materials: Liberon 0000 steel wool, white fiber mesh type pads, Rottenstone, pumice, 400 mesh paper.- posted
16 years ago