Thread: Tired of easy polishing

I usually start with 600 and see what remains. On that one maybe start with 400 and see, do not use a lot of pressure to begin and use a hard backer, synthetic wine corks work well, split in half length wise, for the flats. I rarely go below 320.

Try to put in the least amount of deep scratches as possible, but if you find deeper pitting, then drop down on grit, keep dropping until you find a grit that will remove the damage causing the shallowest stria.

The little bit of time you lose, doing it this way will pay off large, by not having to spend a lot of time removing needless deep scratches.

Where a lot of folks have issues with sanding is they don’t change paper often enough, once it stops cutting, get a new piece or shift to an unused part. Or by not changing directions, count your strokes, say 10 or 20, then switch to 90 degree strokes, heel to toe, then spine to edge.

And dull the edge for saftey, I work on a sheet of 6mm craft foam, that you can bury the edge into the foam and sand to the edge with no danger of cutting yourself.

I cut my paper into 3X3 in squares with a Garage Sale paper cutter, here is a post I made about making the paper into pads to save time and looking for grits. Sandpaper Notepads.