Sanding & Staining a Finger Joint Box

Video Transcript

"O'kay I've got one side of the box sanded down pretty good and I'm going to try another little trick to dress this up a little bit and I'm going to go back to my router. Where is my router? Oh here it is, fell on the floor. I'm going to go back to my round over router and round this corner over and round this edge over and this corner and this edge. So I'm just going to round the whole thing a little, bit, makes it look nice. Wo, tore my sand paper up real good. These are some nice round corners on there, just gives it a little softer look. Now I'm going to put on just some plain wiping stain. There are several different things you can do to this. Pine is really really great for that kind of old antique look so I'm just going to beat this thing up a little bit so this is the fun part. Scratch it and poke it and let's see what else can I do to this thing. I'll do some horrible stuff, beat on it, make it like it's been around for 100 years already, let's see what else, let's smack it with that, how's that, grab my old cane. Now I'm going to put a little bit of this wiping stain on and this happens to be sort of a red mahogany color. Now all the places that you wiped it, those dents and scratchings and pounds that I just did on that, the stain is going to catch in those a little darker than it does on the rest of the box and also on these end grain pieces it is going to soak in and give you something darker. Now this is just kind of a real quick example and as you can see this piece of wood probably had a little bit of glue spilled on it from when we were gluing it up. I was doing that pretty fast so when you do this you want to make sure it is sanded pretty well. The longer you leave the stain on and the more stain that you use the darker it gets so I'll just put a second coat and we'll let that sit for a few minutes before we wipe it off."