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Get a 4mm sheet of craft foam, a dollar at a craft store and use that as a work surface, pressing on the blade with one hand will imbed the edge in the foam and there is no chance of the buffing wheel catching on the edge, you also cannot cut yourself if hand sanding.
Thanks. That's a good tip. I'm using a hardwood base with embedded rare-earth magnets. I tried putting self-adhesive felt over the magnets to keep them from scratching the blade. But I use WD 40 with wet and dry paper, and the felt got gunky fast. Took me a long time to clean off the glue from it. Now, I'm using a 1/8 inch thick sheet of plexiglass over the magnets. I'll try the foam.
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Also use the slowest speed possible on the Dremel high speed, pressure and grit will gouge, keep it moving let the grit do the work not pressure.
You can use a Dremel, plenty of folks have and still do, slow speed and lots of caution. If thing go bad they go bad quickly. Be careful.
I'll try again, keeping it moving, light touch. I had already been using the lowest rpm setting, which on this Dremel is 5,000.