Thread: Osmo poly x clear matt feels rough

Another method you might like to try - after dusting off, wipe wood down with a damp-to-wet cloth. The moisture swells the crushed fibres, making them stand up. Allow to dry off and hand sand very lightly with your last grade or one finer (eg 280 - go 280 or 360). The light touch nips off the crushed fibres which would otherwise pop up with finish application, leaving a ready to finish surface.

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Originally Posted by lefinch

Another method you might like to try - after dusting off, wipe wood down with a damp-to-wet cloth. The moisture swells the crushed fibres, making them stand up. Allow to dry off and hand sand very lightly with your last grade or one finer (eg 280 - go 280 or 360). The light touch nips off the crushed fibres which would otherwise pop up with finish application, leaving a ready to finish surface.

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This is the trick. Though I use a very fine mist sprayer hair saloons use to wet a customers hair. Once you press the trigger fine mists of water sprays out.

Not the mist sprayers from the hardware store.

My process.

Finish sanding with a smooth finish so its ready for a coat of whatever you are going to apply.

Then spray a fine mist of water on the surface and leave it dry over night.

Then finish smooth sand again next day with 220 or a little smoother if you like.