Hey gang.... I've done plenty of staining and stuff in my time, but I'm looking for a suggestion on a set of kitchen cabinets I'm helping someone with.
They were built in the 60's so the wood is good quality. I had to sand down a few doors to bare wood due to worn finishes. However, most of the other doors are in really decent shape except for common wear around the knob areas. Being 60's circa doors, they must be coated with shellac or varnish since ployurethane did not exist them.
I'm going to restain and poly the doors I took to bare wood.
For the other doors should I:
1) light sand them, then attempt to stain the lighter worn areas to blend with the remainder, then poly them
2) light sand them, restain the whole door and then ploy (my concern is the dark vs. light area will get worse, not better)
3) steel wool instead of sand, then stain and poly
4) poly them and do not attempt to stain the lighter areas
I don't have the time to sand them all to bare wood and most of the areas do not need it anyway.
Suggestions? Thanks in advance!
They were built in the 60's so the wood is good quality. I had to sand down a few doors to bare wood due to worn finishes. However, most of the other doors are in really decent shape except for common wear around the knob areas. Being 60's circa doors, they must be coated with shellac or varnish since ployurethane did not exist them.
I'm going to restain and poly the doors I took to bare wood.
For the other doors should I:
1) light sand them, then attempt to stain the lighter worn areas to blend with the remainder, then poly them
2) light sand them, restain the whole door and then ploy (my concern is the dark vs. light area will get worse, not better)
3) steel wool instead of sand, then stain and poly
4) poly them and do not attempt to stain the lighter areas
I don't have the time to sand them all to bare wood and most of the areas do not need it anyway.
Suggestions? Thanks in advance!