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21st June 2020, 09:08 AM #1Novice
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Advice on sanding small gaps on a carving
I have been tearing up tiny stubs of sanding paper for getting into the corners of the carving on this back panel for a box I am making. Still a bit to do to finish this back panel, so I was wondering if there are any better methods for smoothing and sanding or should I just keep up this process?
I had contemplated putting some velcro on some cheap clay sculpting tools and doing the same to some pieces of grades of sandpaper and cutting them out to fit the tool as one possibility but wondered if there are other techniques out there.
Thanks!
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I fixed your post so the image shows.
Good luck with the sanding.
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21st June 2020, 09:56 AM #3Novice
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Thanks Bob. It seemed to come up in preview, but I appreciate the fix.
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22nd June 2020, 11:41 AM #4
Depending on how much sanding needs to be done, a small diamond burr in a rotary tool (Dremel, Foredom, WeCheer, etc.) could be used. I have a large set of burrs I got from Woodcraft that has 150, 240, 400, 600 grits, each in 30 different shapes. WoodRiver - Diamond Tip Carving Burr Set, 120 piece From the photo, it doesn't look like you need any heavy-duty stuff... If you aren't planning to do a lot of this, you can probably get by with one these: Rotary Tool Kit, 80 Pc. I know some wood carvers who buy these, use for a few months until they wear out, then throw them away and get another...
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22nd June 2020, 05:54 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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I use several things to get into corners.
1. A "sanding finger" which uses little sanding belts of different grits.
If you clean it with a crepe rubber stick, belt #1 will last forever.
Lee Valley sells them, I recall there are at least two different sizes.
2. Different sized punches like nail sets to push down the fuzzies.
3. Rifflers. Very fine curved files. Aurioux are hand stitched. The random patterns do not leave grooves in the wood
like a machine stitched rasp/riffler is bound to do. Several tooth sizes and really expensive Lee Valley again.
4. Hide all my carving sins by texturing the entire surface. I like a #5 sweep.
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