What you use is not as important as how, but in finishing it helps. Wet sand beginning with 600 grit, in a CIRCULAR motion (hard for a woodworker to accept) with light body massage type pressure. spray your sandpaper to clean it every 15 seconds / or often with a good spray bottle in your non-sanding hand. Work up to 1500, then begin to buff, again lite massage type pressure. slow speeds.
good gloss. this is before wax. have fun!
to test different techniques, i set up the rudder aligned with the low lying morning sun so i could site along each side to compare techniques. just compounding,even several times, did not work well for me. I had to start by sanding.
Beautiful november in North Georgia. You can see the reflection of my brick house with window, and a red maple tree in the hull. When i started on her,she was pretty chalky. I love the way gelcoat restores. after working with paint and gelcoat, i like gelcoat alot better.
What you use is not as important as how, but in finishing it helps. Wet sand beginning with 600 grit, in a CIRCULAR motion (hard for a woodworker to accept) with light body massage type pressure. spray your sandpaper to clean it every 15 seconds / or often with a good spray bottle in your non-sanding hand. Work up to 1500, then begin to buff, again lite massage type pressure. slow speeds.
After much experimentation with products and techniques, these are the final products used to finish. My Girl was moderately oxidized, meaning no shiney spots at all, but not as bad a a piece of chalk. To get a reflection, you MUST USE WET SANDPAPER. Trust me on this, you cannot get a gloss by just buffing, even buffing several times over and over again.
A good case for finishing your teak. It is just too pretty this way as opposed to the "ignored gray" finish alot of people use. I used cetol "natural teak" as recommended by appleman.
I fashioned the floorboards from cherry. I used a lighter stain on them and used cetol because it is not slippery as polyurethane. I initially put sand on it, but sanded it off as i didn't like it. it does not seem slippery.
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What you use is not as important as how, but in finishing it helps. Wet sand beginning with 600 grit, in a CIRCULAR motion (hard for a woodworker to accept) with light body massage type pressure. spray your sandpaper to clean it every 15 seconds / or often with a good spray bottle in your non-sanding hand. Work up to 1500, then begin to buff, again lite massage type pressure. slow speeds.

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