mgatten
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Probably a very dumb question, but they say the only thing dumber than a dumb question is the dumb guy who doesn't ask it.
I keep seeing mentions of wet sanding. I'm a newbie with only 8-10 pens under my belt, but I'm trying to learn as many techniques as possible. My first five pens were all dry sanded and micromeshed down to 12000 and then CA-finished. They all came out amazingly.
Then I decided to try wet sanding. Is this perhaps actually only for acrylics?
I've tried a few now, and no matter what I do, the wood grain raises up as the wood gets damp. That's to be expected, of course, but I figured the problem would go away as the grits continued getting smaller.
And it does, for a little while, but even going all the way down to 12000, the nice smooth wood gets fuzzy again after a short while. The only way I've found to save the pens is to let them dry and then start over with dry sanding. So the wet is doing nothing but wasting my time at the moment.
What am I missing? I'm sure this probably works great on acrylics, but do people do it with wood? If so, how do you get it to where the grain stops raising? And what is the advantage of it over dry sanding?
Marshall
I keep seeing mentions of wet sanding. I'm a newbie with only 8-10 pens under my belt, but I'm trying to learn as many techniques as possible. My first five pens were all dry sanded and micromeshed down to 12000 and then CA-finished. They all came out amazingly.
Then I decided to try wet sanding. Is this perhaps actually only for acrylics?
I've tried a few now, and no matter what I do, the wood grain raises up as the wood gets damp. That's to be expected, of course, but I figured the problem would go away as the grits continued getting smaller.
And it does, for a little while, but even going all the way down to 12000, the nice smooth wood gets fuzzy again after a short while. The only way I've found to save the pens is to let them dry and then start over with dry sanding. So the wet is doing nothing but wasting my time at the moment.
What am I missing? I'm sure this probably works great on acrylics, but do people do it with wood? If so, how do you get it to where the grain stops raising? And what is the advantage of it over dry sanding?
Marshall