Thread: Could anyone throw me a Sanding Jig together?

Hello all,

I've fancied restoring some razors for a while now, so finally at the weekend picked up a lot of three off fleabay. I was planning on just picking up what kit I needed along the way. But it has become apparent that I will need a magnetic jig, and while I have the desire and capabilities to make one, I don't have neither the tooling or the material. I flicked around the tinterwebs but couldn't find any working links to purchase one.

Could any one on here oblige?

Cheers folks, Ewan

It will help if you would explain just what a "magnetic jig" is and what you will do with this jig.

Dave

Try a sheet of rubber on a block of 1X4. The kind used for making gaskets or old conveyor belts. It keeps the blade from slipping all over the place and if you put the edge on the rubber you can move on and off the blade without risk of cutting your finger tip off. If your intent on the magnet carve a square out of the same block with a pocket knife and fill in with magnet and epoxy. Where there is a will there is a way :<0)

Perhaps this will be helpfull.
Bill's Straight Razor Info: Making the Blade Safety Jig

I have been using Bill's safety jig for some time now and am crazy about it.

Cheers for replies. Ive seen the jig in the reply above, and that's the kind of thing I was hoping someone could make for me, for payment obviously. Though I think I've come on an American forum and I'm in the uk, so don't think anyone can help. Still a wealth of information on here. Cheers anyways.

You do not have to use a jig. Before I started with the buffers I would hand sand. Wrap your sandpaper around a sponge, a cork, or some other crazy contraptions I have seen on here. A piece of wood with rubber on top would work as well I'd think; throw in a clamp and be fancy. The jig looks cool but unnecessary.

man I am slack just carved a bevel/jig into the edge of my ratty workbench, works fine for me when I use it
but I also have an assortment of stainless pipe pieces to use as sanding profile jigs to keep the straight blades straight, no good for the smiling blades but, so back to the jig & sanding block for them.

You can build one with a piece of scrap wood, cardboard, and glue.
Glue the magnets to the wood, cut out the cardboard around the magnets, glue the cardboard to the wood.
Glue some strips of cardboard on top of that to make the shoulder.
It's not a professional solution, but the cardboard will last for a blade or two and is cheap/easy to replace.
Need cheap magnets - go by a computer repair store and ask them for the magnets from a broken hard drive.
Ask for a broken floppy drive as well, the cover plates are thin steel that magnets wills stick too.

my sanding blocks 6" to 3/4" they fit most grinding wheel sizes
some minor gaps to fill still when I find some pipes that fit