We have maple kitchen cabinets with what I would call a natural finish. The cabinet doors and faces appear to have darkened over time the way my solid-maple furniture has. That's fine. The problem is there are panels on the few exposed "sides" to the cabinets, as well as the front face of the...

Well, like the title says I'm going to be re-finishing a maple drum. So I got a ton of questions because I've never done any kind of wood work. So my first question: I have to sand off lacquer and I wanted to know what grit of sand paper do I need? As in one grit to get the paint of quickly...

Hi Guys.... I am building a bar & for the bar top, I have a piece of Maple. Its 14" L x 24" W and 3' H . The perosn I got it from says the tree has been down awhile but was just cut into slabs & it will need to dry out for about a month. The more I read about drying the more discouraged I...