If you’re having trouble seeing the progress of your sander there is a simple trick you can use that will make it much easier to see where you’re going and where you’ve been. Using a pencil mark a sine wave line on your material. As you sand some of the pencil will start to d...
Floor sanders cannot sand up to the floor’s edge or into corners. You do this with a separate machine called an edger. “You’ve got use the same grit progression to match the other machine,” Fenollol says, “otherwise the edged areas will not blend in with the surrounding floor.” ...
One of the tasks that novice woodworkers struggle with learning is how to sand wood. Sanding can be a tedious process, but it is vital to the overall quality of the woodworking project. In the following articles, learn how to sand wood through a variety of methods, from hand sanding to ...
Once most of the stain/paint has been removed, I switch to 150 grit or higher to get rid of any remaining stain/paint, and to smooth out the surface. Invariably, the pieces of furniture I’ve gotten have had areas that are impossible to sand with the orbital sander. So, once I’ve...
Then it was time to sand the wood filler and give the whole surface a good sanding with my orbital sander. And finally I could paint the shelves and desk. The shelves got a few coats of semi-gloss white paint I had on hand for painting trim in the house, and I gave the de...
, leather, and plastic, it tends to dull relatively quickly when used to sand metal. While it will wear quickly while it’s being used, the rapid wear helps to create a finer finish on the surface it’s sanding. Some use it for power sanding, but it’s also used as a hand sander...
Sand and with 120-grit sandpaper on an orbital sander. If I’m hand sanding, I use 80-120. There’s a no-sand method that I’ve also achieved success with using products that help paint bond to surfaces that can’t be sanded. My favorites are Kilz Adhesion and INSL-X Stix ...
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Step 7: Sand Sand the surface of the box with your orbital sander. Make sure to get inside the hole you cut; if you’ve got a drill drum sander, use that. Wish I had one. It would have helped in getting a cleaner surface for the hole. ...
If you’re staining your dresserlike I am, you’ll want to remove all of the existing finish so you can stain the bare wood. Use your orbital sander to sand away all of the finish – I started with 80-grit sandpaper. Be careful to hold it flat and steady so you don’t accidentally...