- Day two of the flooring was almost entirely sanding. We discovered on Day 1 some uneven sections of the floor where the finish wasn't removed. We needed this stuff gone so it was back to the drum sanders.
First, here's the floor at the start of Day 2:
To remove the finish without making things too unsightly we sanded on a diagonal:
After the diagonals we went back along the grain. Our foreman, John, gives the sanding job his approval:
All the floor sanding took around 9 hours. We topped off the night with the first application of the finishing compound
Many thanks go out to our volunteers on Day 2:
- John Manestar
- Walker Lunsford
- Scott Martin
- Matheus Olmedo
- Nick McWilliam
- Adrian Jones
- Janet Eastwood
- Greg Reimer
- Russell Smalley
- Devon Boorman
- Rita ?? (for the food!)
Devon Boorman is the Co-Founder and Director of Academie Duello Centre for Swordplay, which has been active in Vancouver, Canada since 2004. Devon’s expertise centres on the Italian swordplay tradition including the arts of the Renaissance Italian rapier, sidesword, and longsword, as well as knife and unarmed techniques. Read more from Devon Boorman.