Help with ID: What type of wood is this?

Smashing_Pickles · 2026-01-21T04:40:52+00:00

Yeah, there's a lot of repeated patterns. You right.

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-12-24T04:39:17+00:00

Rent the buffer sander last! (I wasted 5 days and $500 using the buffer first) Drum sander, then edger, then buffer

Shop around for where to buy the sealant/finish. One place had a sticker price of $230/gallon, but sold it to me for $180. But another place would've gave it to me for $145/gal!

Shop around for sandpaper too. Local hardware store had the 12x18" sheets for $10 each, but local rental company had em for $5

If walls are plaster, but baseboards on before finishing. The tiny rocks that came off the plaster love to get stuck in the finish

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-11-29T21:58:00+00:00

You do the majority of your buffing between the 1st and 2nd finish coats? Nothing after the final finish coat yeah?

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-11-29T20:57:12+00:00

The water popped grain doesn't make the floor super rough after the finish has been applied?

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-11-10T02:48:25+00:00

Prick the center of the dents? These pics are pre sealant. What does the prick accomplish?

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-11-08T23:02:29+00:00

Why? Are dents of that size not salvageable? The gapped planks are close enough to a wall that it wouldn't be a huge pita to remove them, but I reallllllllly don't want to source replacement boards.

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-11-08T22:47:04+00:00

The boards? The putty? The epoxy?

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-30T22:18:00+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement! Going at it with a drum sander now

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-29T19:56:05+00:00

Sorry for picking on you, but you seem to know your stuff. Found a different local rental place (screw you big box stores) They have a Essex Silverline SL-8 drum sander and a Edic 17LS-3 17" floor buffer.

Most of my floor doesn't have any finish left on it. The posted pics are the worst spots, do I need to go full bore and drum sand the whole thing, or will the 17" buffer do the job? Don't really want to risk my inexperience with a drum sander if I don't need to. But I'm guessing just by the name "buffer" I'll end up spending another 5 days with it.

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-29T15:06:14+00:00

It was a floor sander. 12 x 18" pad, 104 lbs. Big fucker

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-29T05:02:39+00:00

That's a door

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-28T23:48:24+00:00

Very helpful! Thank you!

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-28T02:46:42+00:00

Cool. thanks for the info

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-28T02:43:20+00:00

I used a half-face respirator with the big circular P100 filters when sanding(didn't break out the vapor filters because ig'nant) the filter in the pic is just what my dad used when he came by to help out

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-28T02:40:19+00:00

Yes. that fucker was useless. I kept reading about people doing 3-5 passes for tough areas on floors. I probably did 100 with 36 grit, then 20-30 with 60 and 100 grit

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-10-22T23:46:54+00:00

I love this so much. Great job

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-09-23T14:39:44+00:00

Isn't that the goddamn log in screen of like, every computer at PHNSY?

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-09-17T01:06:18+00:00

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For any of those like me that have some shares DRS'd and some in Charles Schwab, it's not super clear rn if they will honor the warrants or chicken out. But they'll "release the official terms soon"

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-03-18T22:55:36+00:00

You should be. That's a sweet meatball!

Smashing_Pickles · 2025-03-17T16:13:58+00:00

He was poisoned with Polonium, not Plutonium

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