Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Mahogany Door - Almost Finished Refinishing

After several weeks of serious sanding, followed by stain and several coats of spar polyurethane, the door is essentially finished. I think there are a couple of spots that need to be touched up, but I think it looks great.

There were a few blobs of bristles and thickened varnish that I lightly sanded off with 600 grit sandpaper. They need a new coat of varnish (polyurethane) on top. 


Here is the panel that I sanded. The color really looks more like the color in the first photo. But it is so much prettier than it was when we got it.



John is ready for it to be put up in the doorway, but Carlton is going to wait because people will be bringing drywall, wood flooring, tubes to blow in cellulose, and other supplies through the door and he doesn't want the door to get dinged up.

Should anyone decide to refinish a door like this, the key to it is sanding, sanding. The panel corners, moulding are extremely difficult. We really like the Dremel tool detail sander. It made it so much easier to get to those difficult spots in a timely fashion without KILLING our fingers. 

2 comments:

  1. did John build this door or did you reuse a treasure?

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  2. We found the door on Craigslist. The problem was that the guy who sold it to us had it so we couldn't see the sun damaged side. We didn't know how much work was involved in fixing it. I think the outside that John refinished looks better than the inside now.

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