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| Alex Eisenhut:
I wanted to sand down the surface of my wooden cutting board. I usually oil it up but over the years various stains and spills accumulated. The thing is the sanding paper gets clogged up immediately by something like wax, which is I guess butcher block oil + food particles. I've been using a 1/4 block sander and a smaller finishing sander, clearly the wrong tools. I hesitate to use the belt sander with 60 grit... What can I use to get the stains off? |
| BravoV:
Google for "Oxalic acid" and "wood working" or "wood cleaning". |
| RJSV:
Why not just apply some EXTRA patience, go about the business of a little bit of (block) sander, toss the dirty section of fine grit paper, apply the oil, as both will continuously pull dirt up / out. And more patient action w paper towels, soaking up a lot, maybe still visible stained. Keep throwing away those little sections of sandpaper and soaking up dirty oil / replace. Many carpenter types also know about THE HEMP... It can often be purchased at a he,alth food store. Expensive, a bit, and needing continuous refrigeration to avoid going bad, (rancid). It's a thin oil, great for absorbing that funk, and immediately discard that couple tablespoons. Also, I don't know, some folks clean w baking soda. Good luck ! |
| mag_therm:
Could be run through a planer like they use on the woodworkers TV shows. But it might be too wide for the average hobby planer. If it is otherwise a write off, it could be run on a table saw with a wide dado set-up. Leave the edges uncut for support, and run a succession of passes over the dado blades set for 1 millimetre or so. Then use the belt sander to take down the uncut edges and smooth out the ridges from the dado blades. |
| Gyro:
First, persuade yourself that the stains add up to patena and domestic history. Then use a cabinet scraper to carefully remove any embedded sanding grit residue hiding in the end grain of the wood, oil it thoroughly, and go and do something more enjoyable instead. ;) |
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