Distressing Wood
Distressed Sanding on wood.
In addition to using traditional profile sanders to finish molding and/or floorings, brush sanders are another option.
Sanding molding and/or floorings has always been a long and slow job in the small shop, but now a QuickWood CD2 Series Sander is ready to put a stop to that. The prep is very important to the molding and/or flooring, as uniformity in the stain color comes from this prep. The prep is a uniform sanding of the top surface of the whole molding and/or flooring. The top and the bottom of the molding and/or flooring will get the same sanding, and by doing this, the same uniform stain color is achieved.
Brush sanding molding and/or floorings in this way prepares the molding and/or flooring, not just for the staining, but also for the next step, namely the sealer coat. When the sealer coat is applied to the molding and/or flooring, the pre-sanding with a molding and/or flooring sander has made sure that no sharp edges are on the molding and/or flooring.
This does not mean that the brush sanding distorts the profile, it only means that knife-sharp edges are slightly broken. The rules are that a sharp edge will not be able to absorb very much stain or sealer, and thereby this point would be very weak and a possible place where the homeowner would breach the sealer coats and expose raw wood. To make the edges as strong as possible, a light break is performed in the raw wood sanding so the stain and sealer coats sit better on those edges.
After the stain and sealer have been applied and the molding and/or flooring has dried, the brush sander is now ready to do sealer sanding on the molding and/or flooring.
The speed of the spindles is reduced for a softer sanding, and a speed of up to 50 feet per minute can be reached for sealer sanding of the molding and/or floorings.
The machine can be set up with 150-grit for pre-sanding and 220-grit for sealer sanding. Any grit from 80 to 320 is available for the brush sander. Special sanding applications like a rustic, antique or Southwest look also can be achieved by using steel brushes or stiff tynex brushes.
The brush sander will take care of bottlenecks in the production of molding and/or floorings as finish sanding and sealer sanding are now easy tasks to do.
Custom distressed wood flooring:
The art of custom distressing floors is a new trend, popular to the upscale homes being built today.
The style comes from the love of antiques and wanting a floor to have an heirloom quality that produces a historic look unique to your home. Creating the textures only hundreds of years could produce. Not the average floor you find every time you walk into someones home. It can give a home warmth that only time could normally produce. The technique of producing the distressed flooring is a timely and long procedure that is hand done to each individual board making each board one of a kind and not a repetitive cookie cutter look like a machine would produce. Hand scraped is exactly that ~ done by hand.
You can choose between heavy, medium and light distressing. The wood can be manipulated to reclaim the look, complete with wormholes, splits and other naturally occurring characteristics.
The procedure used to obtain this look include; sandovers to round corners, hand-rubbed staining, rasping to create cow tail marks, wormholes are produced by smacking hand tools against the wood in random patters and creating a long shallow indentation will give the floors a split look.
Automatic Distressing of Wood
QuickWood CD2 Series Sander comes in using different types of metal brushes. Just before you send your flooring to finishing, you run your flooring or moldings thru a QuickWood sander loaded with short “RUSTIC” tynex brushes to dig out all the soft grain in your wood to give it that final distressing to make your flooring come to life. This will take the soft grain (summers) out of the wood and leave the hard grain (winters) left giving you a contour in the wood of heigh and low grain struckture.
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