Dealing with an oak floor. Sanded with drum and edger. Cleaned up most swirl marks form edger with orbital.

I put on first coat of stain yesterday and dozens of swirl marks from the edger are showing and the stain looks blotchy and uneven. It is a minwax oil stain, no poly yet.


Should I try buffing with a 220 and re-coating or do I have to re-sand the whole thing?

Start over....

scrape the butt joints and handsand with same paper you fined uop with..should be 80-100 grit the finest.