Cabinet progress

I'm still here. Somehow, among the delays and frustrations of harvest, I was able to slowly keep working on sanding the kitchen cabinets. Mercifully, harvest is over now. Harvest was to this season what shooting a wounded horse is to it.

On Wednesday, I got done with the sanding! It only took 38 hours to do it :P

The cabinet face frames and door frames were a mess. Some were sanded, but only to what looks to have been 60 grit. Others still bore the marks from a thickness planer. The door panels are oak faced plywood that appears to have been factory sanded to 100 grit.

So, I sanded all the frame members with 80 grit. Then I did everything with 120 grit. Then finished off with 220 grit. Much of the sanding of the door frames was done by hand. Just too many nooks and crannies for a power sander, but I am very thankful to have a good power sander for where it worked!

Since the sanding is done, I have gotten started on the rest of the finishing. The staining is going very fast. I have already stained all the drawer fronts and all but 5 of the doors.



I have also topcoated the drawer fronts with polyurethane. I decided to use aerosols for that since they are small, intricate, and well suited for spraying. They got 3 coats of semi-gloss.

I still have a can left and will use it on a couple of the small cabinet doors. Other than that I'm planning on brushing the poly on....probably 2 coats. Oh boy that might be a long ordeal; dunno if I could endure 3 coats. We'll see...