I’m looking to build a speaker cabinet for my bass guitar and I have all these leftover short lengths of ipe. I glued up the panels and am ready to sand them and I wonder what type of finish I can apply to the ipe. I test sanded a cut off with 220 and it feels like glass. I just wonder how the oil in the wood will react with certain finishes. I think it’s probably easier to ask here than play the mad scientist.
thanks, Dustin
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Sikens
what finish from sikkens?
thanks, dustin
I am not sure as it is for speaker cabinets. But if you call them and ask I'm sure they could point you in the right direction.http://www.nam.sikkens.com/index-english.cfm
I'm only assuming that a urethane would not hold up well on ipe?
Yeah a peneatrating oil would be best. And only sand it to 150 to start.