rsser
30th December 2010, 05:50 PM
Talking about power sanding pads here.
If that's not what you had in mind then try Googling :p
To get serious, I've been doing a bunch of Deodar bowls and they have fairly widely spaced growth rings.
With the power sanding pads available locally I was getting rippling; between the harder and softer growth rings.
So I sourced some 'firm' pads from the US to see if foam conformability would make any difference.
Short answer is maybe. This first test didn't have the extremes of ring distance that I've had in the past but the 2" pad seemed to work better.
Drawbacks are:
1. The 2" pad advertised is actually 1/16" of an inch narrower than that and that limits how well you can get into bowl foot corners, either outside with a spigot or inside with a recess.
2. All up, the 2" pad and shank is 1cm shorter than the locally available variety. That's a prob as I use a right angle drill for power sanding. On this test the bowl was around 25cm wide by 10cm deep, so pretty open.
In the pic, from left to right: local 2" pad, then US 2" firm and 3" firm.
The diam of the 3" firm is spot on.
If that's not what you had in mind then try Googling :p
To get serious, I've been doing a bunch of Deodar bowls and they have fairly widely spaced growth rings.
With the power sanding pads available locally I was getting rippling; between the harder and softer growth rings.
So I sourced some 'firm' pads from the US to see if foam conformability would make any difference.
Short answer is maybe. This first test didn't have the extremes of ring distance that I've had in the past but the 2" pad seemed to work better.
Drawbacks are:
1. The 2" pad advertised is actually 1/16" of an inch narrower than that and that limits how well you can get into bowl foot corners, either outside with a spigot or inside with a recess.
2. All up, the 2" pad and shank is 1cm shorter than the locally available variety. That's a prob as I use a right angle drill for power sanding. On this test the bowl was around 25cm wide by 10cm deep, so pretty open.
In the pic, from left to right: local 2" pad, then US 2" firm and 3" firm.
The diam of the 3" firm is spot on.