Wood finishing Pine wood, white/ light patch

Dixon1995

Hi,

I'm doing some furniture and it is Pine wood. The peice I am working on at the moment won't absorb the danish oil im using as well as the surrounding area. Ive originally sanded 120, finishing at 180 and it has worked on the other peices. This one has to an extent but has some areas where the oil just won't penetrate the wood.

Any tips or advice. Thanks

https://i.imgur.com/2bAZpZN.jpg

flashg67

I've found sometimes that sanding with a coarser sandpaper opens the grain to allow better stain penetration, then sand with finer paper afterwards

Fire_Fox

Dixon1995 wrote: »

Hi,

I'm doing some furniture and it is Pine wood. The peice I am working on at the moment won't absorb the danish oil im using as well as the surrounding area. Ive originally sanded 120, finishing at 180 and it has worked on the other peices. This one has to an extent but has some areas where the oil just won't penetrate the wood.

Doing *what* to some furniture? How old is it, how has it been treated beforehand?

Dixon1995

Danish oiling it. Says right there. It's just pine furniture from B&M, stripped all old finishing off it.

Fire_Fox

Dixon1995 wrote: »

Danish oiling it. Says right there. It's just pine furniture from B&M, stripped all old finishing off it.

I asked how old is it, how has it been treated beforehand.

Treatments might include preservative or knotting solution as well as, say, varnish. What you are doing is each step and each tool not only the sandpaper and oil product. You have not said how you have cleaned the furniture for example.

The problem suggests you have not managed to strip everything out and/ or not managed to clean everything off and/ or that your choice of finish is not compatible with something that has been used to treat the furniture previously.

The huge size of your image is causing problems when trying to respond BTW. Might be preventing more knowledgeable people than me responding.

Dixon1995

Hi. It's a year old but so was the other pine furniture I finished, and I like how those turned out.

I removed the beeswax finish which was present with white spirits and wire wool 0000 grade. Then after it dried I worked through 80 grit sandpaper to 180 grit and then cleaned it all down again with white spirit on a rag and a paintbrush to remove dust.

I then just applied each coat of danish oil 24 hours apart and noticed that part of the wood is lighter than the surrounding jacobean colour I went for.

I don't know what you mean by huge image size, it looks fine on my mobile but you must be using a desktop? Ill just link it instead.


Here is the other one I completed, which isn't perfect as im only a beginner. It is rustic enough to match the fireplace however. A bit patchy but nothing which stands out loads.

https://imgur.com/LLeMevW

Thanks for the reply.