Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Gasman

Mike T. This is how i deal with my sandpaper. Cut to the right size to wrap around a cork or eraser (also kept in the box). I eat up cheap scissors cutting it up but it worth it. I get the most out of my paper this way. Less wasted.

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I cut a lot of sand paper for work. I use a utility knife and a straight edge and score the paper from the back, just enough to cut the backing but not all the way through, fold it on the line you just cut and the pieces usually just come apart when folded.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Well...You can hope in one hand and shit in the other....
See which fills first?

Quite the balancing act that would be---

I think the shit hand would fill up first with most!

Where i can, I fold my wet/dry back and forth along a line.
It cuts easily along that with cheap scissors.
Like Jerry, I keep a few sizes of heater-hose instead of corks and an assortment of grits sized to fit them in baggies.

I constantly wipe the sandpaper off on my jeans or a towel.
Esp as changing grits/paper. Also, stropping the blade off with the other jeans leg. A piece of grit can be done away with.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Jerry, your organization is crazy. Maybe you should come hang out in the hoarders corner for a couple of weeks.

Shaun im afraid id go crazy! Couldnt handle it. Im weak my friend. You would probably find me straightening things you didnt want moved. Its a sickness I know, but the wife and i both have it so it works out in my home.

I use dollar store scissors, but buy the garden shears, they seem to be better made and last longer. I use them to trim the strings from my buffing wheels, which are abrasive. I touch them up with a 1k diamond file.

I also have sharpened the guillotine on my shop sandpaper cutter with the same diamond file, it been going for years, scissors I get 6months to a year out of.

Originally Posted by Geezer

Thee is one person left in the area that still, sharpens In his early seventies. He will no longer accept apprentices,

Too many quit bought a machine entourage and ruined or dulled, bent and had used his name as their teacher. Then he had to fix the messes for free. To him and his customers, integrity was paramount. Per of the proceeds is "krinking." That restores the sliding tension curve which makes the blades slide together along their full length of cut.
~Richard
PS, To freshen an old scissors. Use a piece of hardened steel to slide along the cutting edge at about a three degree angle from the bevel and pointed a bit above the flat side. It strengthens the edge and causes a close meeting between the blades. Similar to making scrapers.

When I got a Work Sharp I sharpened several cheap knives before even considering sharpening a nicer one.

My mother was a teacher for many years, when she retired I took her paper cutter. U know..the kind with the removeable machete. Cuts sand paper real nice.!

Utility blades are easy to resharpen. Belt sander with appropriate grit belt. Boom! Great tool to cut sandpaper with. And you don't have to remove it to do.

Got this Wolf on the oven :-)

Nice wolf!
Those tortoise scales look to be in good shape.
What will you be doing?