Chatoyance vs sanding grit

Printable View

25th September 2022, 08:45 PM
chatometry

Chatoyance vs sanding grit

Hi everyone.
Within our test campaign about wood chatoyance we ran a comparative test on two samples, one sanded to #240 and then shellac coated, and the other sanded to #10'000 and then shellac coated.
This insanely high grit resulted in significantly higher chatoyance. The same happened on 5 wood species.
Does this match your experience?
Paolo

PS
more data here: Ultra-fine sanding – PZC Chatometry
26th September 2022, 12:13 AM
Swifty

Quote:

Originally Posted by chatometry

Does this match your experience?
Paolo

PS
more data here: Ultra-fine sanding – PZC Chatometry

Yes absolutely. I sand to 1200 grit prior to applying a sanding sealer, then grain fill and apply shellac using a pad to bring out the chatoyance ( ie a French polish). Thanks for sharing your results!
26th September 2022, 06:14 AM
chatometry

I was surprised indeed because also going ABOVE #1500 had a great impact.

What do you do between sanding and sealing? Do you remove dust from pores with some sort of brush?

All times are GMT +11. The time now is 07:07 PM.

This website and its content is copyright of U-Beaut Enterprises.
Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

♦ you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
♦ you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge
Woodwork Forums as the source of the material.

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content.
Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.