Ken Massingale
Member
Getting along in years and being prone to get tendonitis
easily, I've been looking for a way to do the sanding, especially with the grain, that doesn't leave my arm and wrist aching. I looked for a very small ROS, with something like 1.5" disks. No luck at all. Then I remembered getting one of these for contours on the furniture I build:
For that purpose, it was useless so I had forgotten about having it.
I dug it out a few days ago, stuck a 320 grit on 1 pad, 600 on another and 1000 on the third.
Over the last few days I have used it on about a dozen pens, and folks, I am in pen sanding heaven. I don't sand with the lathe running anymore. I use the 320 pad lengthwise, then rotate the sander to the 600, then 1000, turning the lathe slowly by hand. I finish with the upper MM grades and the surface is like a mirror.
To get the finer grits of paper you have to buy an accessory kit.
Perhaps not for everyone, but for me it works.
ken
easily, I've been looking for a way to do the sanding, especially with the grain, that doesn't leave my arm and wrist aching. I looked for a very small ROS, with something like 1.5" disks. No luck at all. Then I remembered getting one of these for contours on the furniture I build:
For that purpose, it was useless so I had forgotten about having it.
I dug it out a few days ago, stuck a 320 grit on 1 pad, 600 on another and 1000 on the third.
Over the last few days I have used it on about a dozen pens, and folks, I am in pen sanding heaven. I don't sand with the lathe running anymore. I use the 320 pad lengthwise, then rotate the sander to the 600, then 1000, turning the lathe slowly by hand. I finish with the upper MM grades and the surface is like a mirror.
To get the finer grits of paper you have to buy an accessory kit.
Perhaps not for everyone, but for me it works.
ken