Hi Gary yes when I said wet sanding I meant wet sanding the oil finish twice with 400 after a couple of penetrating coats followed by a finish coat of wet sanded oil with 600 grit. That is what is described in my two books on wood finishes by Rebecca Whitman (think I have the author right). I first stripped the cetol with a hot air gun and putty knife and got the wood bare. And yes with the drying time between coats it took the whole afternoon to do a small area. Lots or work but pretty. Probably will still go with varnish on the exterior wood which is covered by cetol for now. Will strip the cetol as I have the chance but just trying to maintain the wood finish for now. Playing with the interior wood is fun as an oil finish there will hold up indefinitely or much much longer! Robbin Robbin Roddewig robbin.roddewig@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: GILASAILR--- via montgomery_boats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> To: montgomery_boats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sun, Jul 16, 2017 11:05 pm Subject: Re: M_Boats: rubbed oil finish on teak When I did it for myself and customers - I sanded 'wet' with oil - wear gloves if there is Tung oil in the mix. If done well - my favorite finish at home and on the water pure tung oil - no linseed. Nowadays I have removed almost all exterior wood trim and have UV resistant HDPE in place (except the tiller) Why do all the 'pretty finishes' take so much work? GO In a message dated 7/16/2017 7:23:35 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, scoobscobie@gmail.com writes: Robbin: sand only if the surface is rough. wet sand ... no. wet will raise the grain making the wood rough. sand, wipe/blow away the dust, oil. :: Dave Scobie :: former M15 owner #288 - http://www.freewebs.com/m15-name-scred :: M17 #375 SWEET PEA - http://www.m17-375.webs.com :: Sage 17 #1 - AIR BORN - http://sagemarine.us/sage_17.html :: Sage 15 sloop #001 - ASOLARE - http://sagemarine.us/sage_15.html :: SageCat #000 - SAGECAT - http://sagemarine.us/sagecat.html On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Robbin Roddewig < robbin.roddewig@verizon.net> wrote:
Thanks Dave! That is a great write up. The rubbed Teak I did required wet sanding with 400 grit and 600 grit. If you put on maintenance coats do they need to be wet sanded as well?
Thanks Robbin
Robbin Roddewig robbin.roddewig@verizon.net
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Scobie <scoobscobie@gmail.com> Sent: Sun, Jul 16, 2017 7:18 pm
rubbed teak oil is what i use on my boats. also used on the Sage boats. works great and much easier to maintain in my opinion (i know others will disagree). i discuss teak oil finishing here -
https://sagemarineblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/wood-finishes/
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Robbin Roddewig < robbin.roddewig@verizon.net> wrote:
Hi all, not as exciting as major rebuild stuff but I just did my first rubbed
oil
finish on a teak drawer. Has anyone got experience with this? I was going from a couple of books and wonder if I pulled off the desired finish.
Thanks Robbin
Robbin Roddewig robbin.roddewig@verizon.net M-23 Pinch Me , Marshall 22 Otter