1. Distressing Wood To Make It Look Old And Weathered
Distressing Wood To Make It Look Old And Weathered
This is a quick guide to use the QuickWood steel brushes for distressing white wood (no stain or
sealer
on the wood). This process can make new wood look old. It can also be used on installed flooring or
assembled furniture to make it weathered or to look old.
First steep in the process of making wood look old.
First you need to figure out what type of wood your are working with
Hard Wood
Oak
Maple
Alder
Ash
Beech
Birch
Cherry
Chestnut
Elm
Hickory
Mahogany
Red Oak
Poplar
Walnut
For the Hard Wood use the steel brushes here http://www.flap-wheels.com/category-s/70.htm
You can choose a 2 head or 4 head depending on what you are doing.
Remember the steel heads are fairly heavy so unless you are doing flooring I recommended you stick
with the 2 head.
We will start this guide talking about Hard Wood Distressing
First you would get a QuickWood head with steel brushes attached and use the 1/2 pin that the head
comes with and attach it to you power drill. When you are ready to distress wood make sure your
work
piece is secure as the steel brushes will put some torque on the wood as you start removing wood.
Find the grain of the wood and run the steel head with with the gain over the wood surface with very
slight downward pressure, make the RPM of the head do the work not the pressure of the head.
Test the distressing first in one area to see how much wood is being removed. To remove more wood
stay in the same spot longer, to remove less wood move the head faster over the surface and don't
let
the steel brushes dig to deep into the wood.
The result should be the softer wood (summer) should be removed and the harder wood (winter)
should
still be in place in lines that follow the grain in the length of your work piece.
After successful distressing its recommended to use a P180 grip flap wheel to clean up the wood and

2. make it ready for stain and sealer coat.
The p180 grit flap wheel can also be used for sealer sanding or sanding in between coats of laquer.
Here is the link for flap wheel heads that will fit the same QuickWood head you steel brushes are on.
2 QuickWood head http://www.flap-wheels.com/Flap-Sanding-Wheels-s/25.htm
4 QuickWood head http://www.flap-wheels.com/category-s/26.htm
After the work piece have been cleaned with a p180 grip flap wheel its ready for stain or sealer to be
applied.
Use the p180 flap wheel for sanding in between coats as the flap wheels are flexible you will see how
nice the tool works to clean up the weathered parts and flat parts and makes it ready to final coat.
This process described here can be used on hard wood floors, beams, furniture, cabinets and
anything
else made of hard wood that you want to distress.
If you have other questions call our office for a helping hand. 1-866-888-5858
If you are working with soft wood the next couple of pages will give you a guide on how to do it.
Soft Wood
Cedar
Cypress
Fir
Pine
Larch
Spurce
For the soft wood the better product to use is Tynex brushes here
http://www.flap-wheels.com/category-s/62.htm
As the steel brushes are a little to hard on the soft wood unless you are looking for a very rough
distressed look a better tool to use is the tynex brushes. These brushes fits on the same head as the
steel
brushes so if you are doing both all you need is to buy the extra brushes and put them on the same
head
as the steel brushes.
The stiff tynex brushes are made to remove soft wood only. The grain structure on soft wood shows
more soft wood and a little hard wood. This is because soft wood grows very fast in the summer time
and very slow in the winter time. This gives you a grain structure of wide soft wood and small areas of
hard wood.
The tynex brushes will remove the soft wood but not touch the hard wood. So the result are a
weathered look of groves where soft wood has been removed. It looks like light sand blasting when
you
get done.
With the softer wood you don't need to use a flap wheel before stain and sealer as the tynex brushes
have abrasive grits in the tips of the brushes. So the work piece should be ready to finish after you
distress it. You can use stain first if you would like and then a sealer coat. After the first sealer coat
lightly sand the sealer before you put on the final coat of laquer.
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off the purchase to get started with our products.
QuickWood is an industrial brand that has been selling in USA for the last 30 years mostly to kitchen

3. cabinet manufactures. For more information about Quickwood visit us at www.quickwood.com
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