Here's a way to make those little "sanding sticks"

[anvilring]

.... you need for intricate guard profileing and tight spots. The pics a pretty self explanitory. Pre-cut your paper to a width so as to leave a little bit of "stick" at each end. You can spray the paper with the adheseve or lay the sticks edge to edge and spray them insted, either way you only have to spray one or the other. Follow the directions on the 3-M stuff. When it gets tacky it's time to "stick it" to something! I use a sharpie to draw lines across the backs of all of them at once before I cut'em apart wiith the scalple so's to delineate between grits. A person could use any line code they like or even different colors. Angle the edges of your popscicle sticks with an eighty grit belt and you have knife edged sanding sticks, cut off the excess rounded "tip" of the stick and you have an angled push sanding stick. when you scuff up an edge, just grind it to good paper again and reuse'em.

regards, mitch
stick pix......

more stick pix....

 

[TOB9595]

Mitch, I get URL not valid when I click a link....
Lookin forward to seein what you did

Tom

 

[anvilring]

I was editing my post. Have a look now...

m

 

[Reg ELLERY]

good idea to glue them a mate of mine uses the bigger tounge depressers like the doctor uses.

It is a bit od a pest with the paper slipping your way looks better.

 

[Daniel Koster]

what do you use these for?

 

[ddavelarsen]

Mitch that's a great idea, thanks.

 

[anvilring]

just about everything! Look at the tight spots in the guard on this bowie; that's where sticks come in handy and you need'em in several grits....


This fire blued steel guard was lot to finish, little sticks helped..... have a look.

 

[tmickley]

Good tip Mitch, thanks for posting it. I'm going to make some of those.