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I think somewhere we are introducing one of those unknown sources here that might be better addressed now. There is no need to sand anything more than 250-grit, sometimes 350 max. Generally there should be no need to start as coarse as 80-grit either, unless the wood absolutely won’t plane because the grain is just too wild. If planed using a well sharpened plane, the surface (sometimes) is more likely to need roughening a little, to give the surface tooth for the finish. Wetting the surfaces of boards isn’t a good idea and especially unconstrained materials and thin flat panels especially. Wet a board with water and it has no choice but to curl and crawl all over the place. There is no doubt that we can indeed go too far with everything, the questions is, how did we get to there?