Took me six months to realize I was doing the same thing. Guess I should have paid for a lesson instead of burning all that ammo.

What grit did you use before that final pass? I mean, if you jumped from something really coarse straight to 220, maybe that's part of the worry. I've always heard you gotta work up through the grits smooth for oak to take stain evenly. Idk, maybe it's just me but a super smooth surface can sometimes make the stain sit on top instead of soaking in.

It's like they think the paperwork will heal people. I mean what's next, a form to prove you're sick before getting medicine?

Just change the subject when that happens.

Watch a hairline crack in a block spread just enough to let coolant into the oil. Seen it turn a 5.3 into a paperweight in under a thousand miles. That milkshake it makes locks things up real good, @the_fiona. It starts as a tiny leak but ends with a crank that won't turn and bearings full of metal shavings.