What Wood Finish Should You Use || Impossible to Screw Up Finishing Method

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[suzannenixon]

Ok, but why make the epoxy black? I kept waiting for the step where it blends in.

[Burgerurger]

My wife usually helps me finish my wood. I'll create a video if there's enough interest

[troyclayton]

I've worked in 5+ houses where Rubio Monocoat was used on the wood floors in the last eight years or so. I've seen thousands of square feet of it applied. It's tough, I return to properties for work and am always impressed with it's the durability over time. It touches up like a dream, you can actually just do spots and not have it flash like mad. Almost all my daily work is finishing, so I've always been about the 'tried and true'. Rubio has impressed me and has attained that status in my book. I was surprised to see so many woodworkers on YT using it, not sure why. Guess I thought it was a floor thing. My only complaint is sometimes open grain woods don't always fill enough to keep stuff from getting in the vessel elements and having to be sanded out. Waah.

[graduallywizardly]

LOVE the floor sander buffing pad idea, man. For rags, I use old bed sheets from a charity shop. They usually have a hard time getting rid of them. On my last rags mission, they filled up a garbage bag with random sheets and through in a little Spiderman toy for my boy and charged me $5. Hack up the sheets and you’ve got rags for years.

[kjf]

Not knocking anyone’s work style — you are obviously a lot more prolific and successful than me — but I don’t sand pieces. After planing smooth and flat, I just set my plane to take a feathery stroke off on the final pass and the piece is like glass, no dust, and wide open pores that soak up my waxes and buff like patent leather. I understand some people who do this professionally (unlike me) just don’t have the time to hand plane every board before assembly with deadlines etc., but in principle, I disagree with the notion that sanding is some necessary evil. I’d bet the time isn’t actually all that different between working through sandpaper grits and hand planing. Plus my risk of COPD is way less without all of that dust in the air.

[blakehendrix]

Great video and entertaining as always, thanks! I agree about the glossy finish… I don’t mind it but I kinda prefer a more matte finish (never loved the look of polyurethane that a lot of people go with)
PS: Sorry to hear about your dad… lost my dad a few years ago in my 20’s and it sucks! Prayers for you and your family!

[monkeythest]

Having messed up a few projects with bad finish, this has been really helpful. Thank you.

[csimet]

Tuck Tape... used for sealing rigid foam board and sheathing, usually for wall insulation installs. Think of it as the multi-purpose duct tape version of packing tape. The stuff is great and sticks to everything, but can be peeled off with some effort. It is specifically recommended for epoxy applications as well (mold release). I always have a couple rolls on hand.

[RP]

What color finish did you use here? Great work by the way!

[lechatbotte.]

I figured out what I love about this channel besides the obvious fun stuff like the intro. It’s not pretentious. Some wood workers are great for tutorial but some are so pretentious too serious. Not to mention this is the only channel with THE FORMAN who we need to see more of.

[funnyguyable]

Tuck tape is commonly used for taping the seams in vapour barrier.

[tylerh]

For floors where we want to shine up the Rubio, we double coat it and let the second coat dry for an hour or so, then come back with a white buffer pad and hit the whole thing with that. Polishes it up and you don’t lose the ability to touch up or recoat later.

[atariforever]

The amazon link you shared for the Rubio was crazy expensive. $160 for less than a pint? Gtfo with that. Clicking around a little I found the same same stuff on sale for $49. Which frankly is still too much. For that kinda money this crap better at least make me a sandwich after...

[MumrikDK]

I swear, all the wood working Youtubers use Rubio at this point.

[Akakak]

I just finished my first woodworking project. I used Rubio and several other tips from Jason's videos. Thank you for the content and help!

[jasonricchio]

For small voids like this I have switched to using the black glue sticks that is used for Paintless Dent Repair (PDR). It takes a good glue gun, but it works like a charm. It does not shrink and is ready to sand in the amount of time it takes for the glue to cool.

[alexanderweeks]

Not sure why sanding is the most hated part. It's my favorite. I'll sand pieces to 400 or 800 grit so they are glossy before applying a finish. Sanding is great and worth the time if you are patient.

[tcrotunda]

You’ll need to go back over the spot you rubbed with your beard… that’s only about 120 grit, you need to up it to 220.

[archael]

For the grits, it's easy to remember by not going past 150% of the previous.

80 to max 120
120 to max 180
180 to max 270
Etc...

[kellyb]

Thanks for this video. Finish always seems like the most intimidating part of the whole project because if you get it wrong it can be so much work to fix it.