Refinishing Your Interior Woodwork

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Mickey Goodman

For those of you that want to refinish your interior woodwork I will share a trick that a Master Cabinet Maker showed me that can turn a OK job of refinishing into an outstanding job. After you have sanded. Put three coats of finish, I use Daley's ProFin for the interior woodwork. Lightly sand between each coat with 200 grade sandpaper to get off the high spots. After you put on the last coat lightly sand with 400 grade sandpaper. Then, this is the trick! Use OOOO steel wool dipped in a good paste wax and rub in circluar motion rubbing the wax into the finish. You don't have to "kill" it with the rubbing but moderate pressure will work fine. After you feel you have all the high spots off buff with a soft dry cloth, old towel works for me. You can buff up a nice shine on the wood. Try it on a piece of scrap wood and see how it works. I would recommend that the wax you use is a good grade that has "wax" in the formula. I use Johnson paste floor wax which comes is a can. With all the work I have done in my boat a little more effort on the wood finish will make the job look like it was done by a professional, not a klutz like me.
 
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Gene Kinney

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Saw your note on refinishing. My boat is 15 years old and she needs a facial. I'll try your technique and let you know how it goes. I spent a lot of summers in Misquamicut on the beach. Is it still as pretty as it was..40 years ago? Gene Kinney Triumph H 40
 
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