refinishing lauan doors

I have 2 lauan doors which apparently had nothing done to them when hung up new years ago. They looked a bit grimy, etc so I took them down and sanded them yesterday. My plan was to put a light stain on them and leave it at that. (I don't want to polyurethane them as I don't want to spend that much effort. And I read another's post that it can yellow over time.) But after sanding them they look so nice as is that I'm wondering if just lemon oil or tung oil on them would be sufficient. Any thoughts?

 

Welcome to the forums! I know you don't want to take alot of time with them, so try using Minwax Polyshades, which combine the stain with the polyurethane, and it is done in one operation. I don't think you will be satisfied with the results just using tung oil or another surface material without sealing. Alot of the problems you had originally was because they were not sealed.

 

What Chandler said, but consider water based poly, goes on clear, quick, and esay and will not yellow. As suggested, you need to seal it with something, or you will be back to the same problem you had.

 

Thanks to chandler and just bill for your help. I finished the project many moons ago and want to tell you that the doors look fabulous. I really didn't want to do much work, but your comments made sense. So I dug through my refinishing stuff and found some Minwax polyurethane clear semi-gloss I had in stock. I did several coats with my beloved Wooster brush, lightly sanding in between, until I used it all up. I already had some mineral spirits on hand for clean-up so I did it all on the cheap. Thanks again.

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Glad to be of help.