Tired of looking for a piece of sand paper and not knowing what the grit is or trying to find the next grit in the progression? Or just wasting paper, cause, you know you have some more of ‘that sheet”… some place…
Recently I was on the Cactus Juice web site, turntex.com, searching the site for more info on stabilizing wood, and I found this piece of Genius.
“Sand Paper Notepads” by Curtis Seebeck. You just glue the sheets into a pad, like a note pad and tear off a new sheet when needed, make them in the grits you use and store, in a neat, little packages.
The tutorial is pretty easy to follow, but here are a few tips I discovered when I did it. You can make the pads any size you want, Turners cut sheets into strips and stack in a progression, so you just tears off the next piece in the progression, in order, no confusion.
I use a 3x3in, 6mm foam pad over a wine cork, to hand sand, the synthetic corks are better because the end are cut flat, not beveled and you can get into tight corners like stabilizers.
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I keep my Wet & Dry in a portable file box in hanging file folders.
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I cut the sandpaper into 3x3 squares with a $2 garage sale paper cutter, that I only use for cutting sand paper. Stack them evenly and clip with a binder clip, you can just staple them together if you want. As soon as you cut the sheets flip the squares over and mark the grit in a couple of places. Do it now, if you wait, your screwed, 3 sheets will make a stack about ¼ in thick.
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I cut a couple pieces of wax paper 3.5 X9 in to protect the vice and keep from gluing the paper to the vice. Place the stack, even end up in a vice, a wood clamp would also work, if you don’t have a vice.
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Make sure the stack is a 1/8 to ¼ in below the top of the vice so the top of the stack is tight and there is a small channel for the glue to pool.
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Using yellow wood glue,
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Apply a thick bead and let dry. Now peal off the wax paper and do the next grit.
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This is so simple, it’s genius. Check out the link and his website, Thanks, Curtis. Enjoy.
