Thread: Sandpaper - so basic, I never knew!

Hi gents,
For those of use with mostly woodworking experience, this may come as a bit of a shock...you can't really just use whatever sandpaper you have for wood when sanding razors...

I put this out there for the other newbie restorers to not have to go through what I did!

I read Bruno's hand sanding how-to thread, top to bottom, I made the little nifty sanding block to avoid the dreaded carpel tunnel syndrome, I cut my sandpaper into nice little strips to affix to the sanding block, and then I went at it....and still at it...and still at it...and yet still! Gah!

I knew that handsanding could take a while, but I was roughly 22 hours in, and not all the pits had been sanded out yet, and the razor wasn't that bad off to begin with...I couldn't figure out what was going on - not enough pressure? Too much? What?!?!

I then googled sandpaper type, and this is what I learned. Regular woodworking sandpaper is Garnet, which, incidentally, is not good for metal. D'oh!

Here's a little table that I'll forever have up in my shop from now on:



Good luck!
Mark