I have been reading various recipes for the final finishing of an English gunstock. Most methods start with wet sanding with 320 grit paper and progress to finer and finer grits after the pores are filled usually about 3 sandings later. Some suggest wet sanding up to 600 or 800 grit.

My question is, when sanding in the finish on a gunstock, do you always use a thinned vision of the finish or at some point do you switch over to using full strength finish?

Thanks in advance.

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