I was reading the post on hand sanding and got to thinking about a neat trick I learned from Joe Arnold. I'm not sure where the idea came from or if it is generally used and I just haven't heard or seen any-one use it or maybe it's just a regional thing.
Anyhow here it is. For sanding into the hollow grinds of a hand rubbed finish you use a hockey puck that has had a radius the same as your wheel ground onto it.
I just place the puck up against the side of the wheel and trace the outline with a white china pencil on the puck. Then cut and sand until the white line just disappears.
This leaves a substantial amount of the puck
to hold onto and wrap the appropriate grit of shop roll around the circumference.
With the blade firmly secured on a cutlers anvil you fit the pucks new 8" radius and attached abrasive into the blades hollow and
and go to town length-wise from tip to ricasso.
Here's another idea that I would like to claim as one of the very few original idea's
I have ever come up with on my own. No doubt once I post this I will find out that you have all been doing this for years and once more I am merely out of touch with reality.
Hockey rink plexiglass for workbench tops and cutting boards when sheath-making.
This stuff is 1/2 inch thick and tuff. Best of all it is FREE!!. That's right FREE.Just wander down to your local municipal arena and find the guy who does maintenance. He will have broken pieces in various sizes that can be cut to fit any work surface.
I have mounted various pieces of equipment to individual pieces and bolted through them to the under-side of the workbench. If you are fortunate enough to get a large enough piece to cover the entire bench all the better. Otherwise you can use several smaller pieces fastening them with screws counter-sunk into the surface at the outside edges and along cross braces.
I know this has been a long post but I hope it is helpful.
I now sit back and await the inevitable barrage of one-liners regarding Canadians,
hockey rinks, and having entirely too much time on our hands during the long cold winter.
Fire away guys I'm looking forward to it.
Jim Ziegler aka Kraut
P.S. That's Ziegler with a "ZED" not a"ZEE"
Eh..
Anyhow here it is. For sanding into the hollow grinds of a hand rubbed finish you use a hockey puck that has had a radius the same as your wheel ground onto it.
I just place the puck up against the side of the wheel and trace the outline with a white china pencil on the puck. Then cut and sand until the white line just disappears.
This leaves a substantial amount of the puck
to hold onto and wrap the appropriate grit of shop roll around the circumference.
With the blade firmly secured on a cutlers anvil you fit the pucks new 8" radius and attached abrasive into the blades hollow and
and go to town length-wise from tip to ricasso.
Here's another idea that I would like to claim as one of the very few original idea's
I have ever come up with on my own. No doubt once I post this I will find out that you have all been doing this for years and once more I am merely out of touch with reality.
Hockey rink plexiglass for workbench tops and cutting boards when sheath-making.
This stuff is 1/2 inch thick and tuff. Best of all it is FREE!!. That's right FREE.Just wander down to your local municipal arena and find the guy who does maintenance. He will have broken pieces in various sizes that can be cut to fit any work surface.
I have mounted various pieces of equipment to individual pieces and bolted through them to the under-side of the workbench. If you are fortunate enough to get a large enough piece to cover the entire bench all the better. Otherwise you can use several smaller pieces fastening them with screws counter-sunk into the surface at the outside edges and along cross braces.
I know this has been a long post but I hope it is helpful.
I now sit back and await the inevitable barrage of one-liners regarding Canadians,
hockey rinks, and having entirely too much time on our hands during the long cold winter.
Fire away guys I'm looking forward to it.
Jim Ziegler aka Kraut
P.S. That's Ziegler with a "ZED" not a"ZEE"
Eh..
