Keystone Wood Finishing Facts | Wood Cabinet Finishes

Keystone offers the option of professional finishing services with your cabinet doors, drawer fronts, and other wood components orders. Choose from our more than 50 paints, stains, and glaze options or a custom color match to your specifications. View our Keystone Wood Specialties Finishing Facts below to decide on the best option for your next job.

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POLISH SANDING

After sanding with 180 grit on a wide belt sander, cabinet doors, drawer fronts, and face frames are sanded with a palm random orbit sander with 150 grit sandpaper to remove belt and cross-grain scratches. We recommend that you prep your cabinet doors, drawers, and frames for finishing to ensure a uniform appearance with your cabinets.

SHEEN

Unless otherwise specified, all finishes are 40 sheen (medium gloss). Other common options are 5 sheen (low gloss) and 60 sheen (high gloss). Our paint is 20-30 sheen. Contact customer service for more details.

WIPING STAINS

Our wiping stains are sprayed on and hand-wiped to achieve a smooth and thorough coverage. All stains are then top coated with two coats of catalyzed varnish.

SPRAY STAINS

Some wood species, such as maple, tend to become blotchy when finished with darker wiping stains. Spray stains offer an alternative stain that prevents the wood grain from “pulling”. Due to the nature of spray stains, some framing bead or panel raise profiles may result in a “halo” effect where the stain is slightly lighter in color at the edge of the profile.

PAINTS

Our paint grade products are coated with high-quality industrial-grade primers and paints that exhibit excellent moisture-resistant and non-yellowing properties. Paints are sprayed on for a uniform finish.

GLAZES

Glazes can be applied to any paint, stain, or natural finish to give depth and definition to the product.

TOUCH-UP KITS & CANS

Touch-Up Kits

A touch-up kit consisting of a felt-tip stain marker and a fill stick is available to match our standard stain colors. We also offer touch-up kits for our standard paints. We recommend the purchase of a kit for each job to leave with your customer for future use.

Cans of paint or stain with your finished order

Customers who order finished products may purchase quart or gallon supplies in order to finish other parts of their project to match their Keystone order. Due to liabilities (and the fact that we are a cabinet door manufacturer, not a finish manufacturer), we are limited to what finishes and quantities we can sell. We are not able to sell any stains to a customer without a finished order of the same color in production. We use a catalyzed varnish as our “natural” finish and a tinted catalyzed varnish as a top coat for our painted orders. Since we cannot sell anything with the catalyst, any paints we sell will need to have the catalyst added. We will provide you with the catalyst number and amount to add.

A hazmat fee is applied to each can of stain that is shipped.

Keystone cannot be held responsible for the appearance of items finished by our customers.

ACCURACY OF COLOR SAMPLES

Keystone tries to be as accurate as possible when representing the colors of our finishes. However, due to the limits of various forms of color sampling, local lighting conditions, and the nature of wood itself, it is impossible to guarantee an absolutely exact representation of how your order will look.

Printed samples (such as our catalog) can be fairly close, but they can never completely compensate for the depth of wood grain and actual wood color. Viewing color online is the least accurate due to the virtually endless variables with monitors, handheld devices, etc.

Actual wood block samples are the most accurate. However, even here, due to the normal characteristics of real wood, the same stain finish applied on two samples of the same wood species can differ slightly. This accounts for the warmth, beauty, and value of natural wood.

Please contact us for more information about our Keystone Wood Specialties’ finishing facts. Our customer services team is ready to assist with any questions you may have.