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Hi, my name is Matthew Christian from Tampa, Florida and on behalf of Expert Village today I'd like to talk to you about a portable electric sander. Another consideration in purchasing a sander or when you are going to use it you will need to determine... Read More »

Hi! This is Jon on behalf of Expert Village. In this video clip I will be showing you how to operate a Random Orbit Sander. When sanding, you can either grasp it around the waist or you can grasp it by the top. When sanding, you want to make long... Read More »

Sanding Tips for TablesSanding Tips for Tables by Expert Village

Okay, the second to the last process of our table is we're going to sand it. Sanding is probably the biggest pain to do, but it's one of the most important things to really finish your piece out. With that I'm going to use a palm sander. What I've done... Read More »

Smoothing Raised Wood GrainSmoothing Raised Wood Grain by Expert Village

In this clip we're going to talk about how to deal with raised grain. We just talked about what raised grain is when staining wood, now we'll talk about how to deal with it. The best way to deal with raised grain is to not have it happen at all. That's... Read More »

I'm Rob McManhon with Expert Village. Sand paper is graded by the grits. The grit is the roughness, the size of the size of the roughness of the paper. Now that can be any where from a 30 grit which is very coarse to 800 grit and up for fine polishing... Read More »