Plane and Sand Door Surfaces

[Music] so remember the moral story or the theme of this build is uh wood bends right when you put clamps on it the same thing is happening to these end pieces these rails so i'm using a 1x2 material you can use anything but you can clamp it and i'll straighten it out for you if it dries crooked like that guess what you're going to have a funky door okay so we're getting ready to sand and i've given a little test run with a sander i have a pretty aggressive sander but these uh bumps they're they're kind of substantial i'll be here for hours got myself a little bit of a while ago a uh power planer and what it is is instead of that handheld push one with a blade this has a rotating blade you can set the depth height of this blade and then you will be able to shave off the crazy transitions making it easier to sand it afterwards i think i paid something around 90 bucks for this at home depot but well worth its weight in gold i'm gonna give it a quick run and then we'll start sanding with about 80 grit here's a little trick i've seen and i use it regularly i'll just take a pencil and i'll scribble all around the table then you come in here and then you basically sand at a consistent rate so the scribble marks you're sanding them off and it'll give you kind of a good measuring rod that you're sending everything equally so hopefully that helps okay so everything's got sanded to 220. now when it comes to staining wood species