I just got home from a family-related trip. Before I left I had done the third soaking of a Cook Pine bowl. I usually wipe off the excess and or oozing oil several times a day. Today I found several lines of still tacky oil, with a droplet at the end. If you try to clean that up with sandpaper you will find that it will clog it up quickly. My good friend Wayne Omura was visiting, he cleans up and applies oil with fine steel wool. Since I didn't have any, I used 320 Abranet. I apply some oil over the drips and proceeded to clean it up. Abranet did a good job, will have to try steel wool if I ever need to clean up again, but I will use to apply the oil, the final wet sanding step.