De-nibbing Pads (Finishing Pads) - Used to Give Wooden Finishes a Perfectly Smooth Feel After the Application of an Oil or Varnish (5)

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If you’ve chosen to use steel wool though, then you’ll want to use that dry, otherwise your steel wool will turn rusty! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Use of 600 grit is for the first coat (when fully dry), even finer grit, or very worn 600 grit for the second coat, final coat 4x0 wire wool. I use 0000 (four-noughts) wire wool (that's a grade finer than John, above) for applying the wax, but you can use a pan scourer (the green or white matty things, not Brillo pads, they are too coarse).It can be done with any oil finish and will just improve and smooth the surface for a slight more superior finish, if you don’t do it is not the end of the world, but it is something that we recommend. Thank you so does that mean with the product I am looking at using I would need to use a fine grade wool? I have also been told that soft sanding pads are good as well I presume these are the same as the Abranet pads?

Also I presume I would need to get a sanding block for the Abranet pads too as I currently just have a sander and nothing to do hand sanding with apart from my hands. Starting with the obvious reason and that is to get your finish as smooth and professional looking and feeling as possible.

Basic purpose is to remove/flatten any minute specs of dust, etc, that were airborne and have settled while the finish was drying, and/or any specs of rubbish that were in the liquid finish as you applied it (though you do strain your material through a coffee filter and old pair of ladies tights before EVERY use, don't you?