Understand Project Goal and Select Initial Sanding Tools

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Sanding and Painting Stained and Lacquered Cabinet Doors

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Begin by understanding the project's goal: to repaint stained and lacquered cabinet doors. The primary objective of sanding is not to strip the finish down to bare wood, but to create a 'mechanical scratch' on the existing surface. This scratch provides an ideal texture for the new primer and topcoat to adhere to, ensuring a durable finish. Select appropriate sanding sponges based on the door's profile. For detailed profiles, a 1/2 inch sanding sponge is recommended to conform to curves without flat-spotting. For larger, flat surfaces, a 10mm sanding sponge can be used with a power sander. For areas that are too intricate for a power sander, or for fine-tuning, flexible EkaDiamond hand sanding sponges are ideal. When choosing grits, opt for medium fine or fine for the initial sanding to effectively remove the glossy surface without over-sanding. If you accidentally sand through the existing finish to the bare wood, it's acceptable; these areas will need to be primed specifically or the entire door will be primed before top-coating.

Goal: Select the correct tools and grits for sanding lacquered cabinet doors to create a mechanical scratch for paint adhesion.

Tools and materials

EkaDiamond Abrasive Sponges EkaDiamond — Hand sanding intricate areas and edges for better control and flexibility
Ekasand Plus 1/2" Sanding Sponge Ekasand — Sanding detailed profiles of the cabinet door
Ekasand Plus 10mm Sanding Sponge Ekasand — Sanding flat surfaces of the cabinet door
Lacquered Cabinet Door — The item to be sanded and repainted

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this is a scenario we're going to be running into all the time where customer calls us up they've got a stain and lacquer cabinet and now they want them white or some other color and Sherry you are the sanding expert I came here to learn how to get a better finish myself and learn some tips and tricks from you and I want them to share this with our audience and we've got a bunch of um who needed products right here that I typically keep in my vehicle but just to simplify this process can you give us some tips and tricks how you would go about sanding this door what products you would use so our customers could see this in action so this is just a stained and lacquer door just pull off of somebody's house and where how do we start well this is a pretty detailed profile door so we're going to need a half inch because we need to be able to drop in and get some of these profiles without flat spotting right but we still have a lot of flat surface and we don't want to use a half inch on the flat surface so I would pull in a 10 millimeter and then the last thing is is we because it is so detailed there will be some areas where we will need to do some hand sanding and so the last thing I would pull in is the economic sponge and so um for my audience there's a lot of different um within the sponge different grits you can use so um you've got I can see there's fine very fine and super fine and um there's other ones but um and maybe like medium and stuff like that what grits would you use to sand this door well the the thing that we have to remember is that we're gonna the door's gonna be really good and cleaned right and that the what we want to do is we want to take off the shiny surface so you want to go a little bit more aggressive in the beginning so you may want to go medium fine or a fine right and you want to get that gloss off of there but we have to also remember that we're not sanding for leveling in this situation we're sanding for the next coat to adhere right so we're just looking to put a scratch so we don't have to get into our conventional abrasives and really get down into the wood because the more you get down into the more the more you're going to show in your your finish so what I would go with is I would go either with like I said a medium fine and then or a fine that would give us a good scratch so medium fine refining I know um I get this question all the time yo from customers and they're saying do I need to sand this down to bare wood before…

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