If you want the most professional-worthy paint job possible, sanding your walls really is a must. Not only does it smooth out your surface for an even application, but it helps your paint to adhere ...

Seeing sandpaper on a project checklist may seem like an easy enough item to check off—that is, until you hit the hardware store and face stacks of sandpaper sheets and booklets, each distinctly ...

A 40- or 60-grit paper is very coarse and is used for heavy sanding and stripping or to severely rough-up a surface. Medium-grit papers are 80 through 120, used to smooth surfaces and remove small ...

There's more to a good paintjob than good paint. There's the preparation that goes on before the first can of paint is opened; the work that happens in between coats of primer, basecoat, and clear; ...

In addition to finding the right sandpaper grit for your project, and knowing when you can stop refining (and stop sanding!), proper wood sanding technique is also important. From the editors of Fine ...

Every woodworking project requires sanding to some degree. Use this pencil trick to know when it's time to step down in sandpaper grit. Sanding is literally and necessarily the process of removing ...