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acid stain before or after polish?
southern designs	05-05-2008 19:04:12
Member Posts: 38 Joined: 12-13-2007	hey everyone I just poured my first counter, and wanted to get started on the polishing proc. but wanted to acid stain the counter black, but didnt know if it was better to wait till the end (3000grit)

customc	05-06-2008 05:20:31
Member Posts: 76 Joined: 02-02-2008	if you stain early you will remove some color .how high of pad number do you polish to ?i only polish to 200 for the vseal i use.so i will stain it at the end of polishing.but if you go higher i would stain at 200 then finish polishing to your final grit.i think higher than 200 doesnt remove much color anymore.i have stained all the way up to 800 grit though

southern designs	05-06-2008 05:30:29
Member Posts: 38 Joined: 12-13-2007	since this is my first i wanted to just wait and see as far as how high of a grit i wanted to go with.

customc	05-06-2008 06:31:18
Member Posts: 76 Joined: 02-02-2008	personally i don't see much difference after 200 grit.the sealer might have pealing issues after 200 also.

MC	05-06-2008 12:16:19
Member Posts: 764 Joined: 05-20-2007	if you are going to seal the surface, than just hand sand with 220 grit sand paper then stain and seal

southern designs	05-06-2008 18:08:42
Member Posts: 38 Joined: 12-13-2007	I just did the 200 grit today, should i fill in the air bubbles know or after staining?

MC	05-07-2008 16:25:51
Member Posts: 764 Joined: 05-20-2007	fill in all of your holes first, then sand them smooth and stain

solid-art	05-14-2008 19:04:54
Member Posts: 42 Joined: 03-20-2008	So how did the top turn out? Paul

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