Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Wood Treatment

Actually this article not include about paint. But we think this is very important to you if you want to apply a paint by your self. It's about wood treatment before ready to be finishing. Choosing the right wood and paint will produce good furniture.

To produce a good outcome, not only supported from good paint, but also treatment from wood or furniture that will be improved. Whether the introduction of soft wood (ex. albasia wood) or hard wood(ex. Mahogany wood) can also provide ideas for you to do the finishing. Soft wood should painted with solid color that completely closed the wood surface. Because the soft wood fibers does not have an interesting and beautiful fibers. Soft wood is also commonly used for baby Crib and children's toys. By selecting the right colors(ex. pastel colors) will make it more interesting. While on the hard wood that has beautiful fibers would be better if you paint with a transparent system. This system will highlight the wood grain that looks more attractive. But it's depend on your decision. You want solid color or transparent system.

Each timber has different wood fibers. Sometimes this raises a different treatment. However, with proper sanding, wood surfaces will be flat and smooth. Sanding should be done in the direction of fibers. If sanding against the wood fiber will be damaged and cause sanding marks after the coatings. Sometimes it takes 2x sanding. The first with a coarse sandpaper and the second with a fine sandpaper.

Sometimes if you buy wood still there are sap wood. The sap wood could damage us in a solid color paint system. Especially for those of you who use water-based paints. Indeed, paint companies have made the paint that can block the sap wood. But for water-based paint is very hard to be perfect to hold the sap. This is because the basic nature of water. And also the sap of the wood can not be predicted whether a lot or a little. So you should look for trusted sellers of wood that their wood treatment is ideal and correct in the case of sap wood removal.

Before doing the painting, wood should be thoroughly cleaned. You check if there are wooden eye or not. Usually wooden eye has a darker color. On solid color system, the wooden eye color will cause a different color effect. While on a transparent system can make attractive and interesting effect. You also have to clean the dirt and oil on wood. If there are still dirt and oil, paint adhesion will be ugly.

If you want to repaint your furniture, you should clean the paint dry completely. Mark paint from old coating that still remaining in furniture can cause bad adhesion and the worst is your paint will be peeling.

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