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Apply and Refine Grain-Filling Primer for an Open Grain Look

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Eliminate the grain or keep the grain? Painting oak kitchen cabinets! #remodel #homerennovision

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What happens here

The speaker explains the objective: to use a grain-filling primer to achieve an 'open grain look' on oak cabinet doors, differentiating it from completely eliminating the grain. He highlights that an open grain look retains the wood's natural profile while filling unsightly pinholes. He demonstrates sanding a previously primed oak cabinet door using a hand-held sander to refine the surface. Subsequently, he shows another cabinet door being sprayed with the Rener 648 grain-filling primer using a spray gun mounted on a rotating cabinet door stand. The primer is described as also catalyzing and stopping tannin bleeds, which is crucial for oak wood.

Goal: Apply grain-filling primer to oak cabinet doors to smooth imperfections while maintaining the natural wood grain.

Tools and materials

  • Cabinet Door Stand — Holding and rotating the cabinet door during spraying
  • Cabinet Door — The item being primed
  • Gloves — Protecting hands during sanding and spraying
  • Hand-held Sander — Sanding and refining the surface of the primed cabinet door
  • Respirator Mask — Protecting respiratory system from dust and fumes
  • Sandpaper — Abrasive material for smoothing the primed surface
  • Spray Gun APOLLO — Applying the grain-filling primer evenly onto the cabinet door
  • Rener 648 Grain-Filling Primer Rener — Filling pinholes and creating a smooth, yet open-grain finish

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So, what's the difference between eliminating the grain and an open grain look? So, I'm using a grain filling primer from Rener 648 and it fills the grain. Now, people were saying, "Oh, I can still see the grain." So, this is achieving an open grain look. We want to see the grain. We want to see the profile of grain uh cuz it's nice wood. So, we don't want to eliminate it and make it look like a piece of MDF. But what we do want to eliminate is all the pin holes and stuff that will look unsightly. You know, after you sprayed your top coat on there, if you want to 100% eliminate the grain on an oak cabinet door, you're better off probably just investing in buying new doors than spending the time of just continuing to load, you know, more and more primer on there to get it eventually 100% flat. What looks really cool is the grain itself and that open grain look. And that's what uh Rener 648 primer does. Catalyze it and it will also stop tannon bleeds. So these oak doors will look absolutely amazing with an open grain look, not grain eliminated.

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