On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:36:16 -0500, Prometheus wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:27:25 -0700, mac davis
wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:37:05 -0400, Gerald Ross wrote:


I sometimes use a short piece of dowel with a slit sawed across the end
about 2 inches deep. A 2 inch strip of sandpaper slid into the slit and
wrapped around the dowel can sand the interior without risking a digit.

A variation of your dowel that works well for me is the roll ends of wet/dry
paper from Klingspor's http://www.woodworkingshop.com
(Bargain bin/roll ends/turners box?)
It's very stiff backed and will roll up to the size needed to either run it in
and out of the box opening or wrap it around a dowel or chunk of closet rod and
get a good smooth "bore"..

Looks like the price is right, too. Is that really 20 *pounds* of
sandpaper? That ought to keep me busy for a while!

yep.. George turned me onto them about 6 months ago, so I bought the bargain
box.. not expecting much except good paper.. I was expecting a lot of little
rolls in different sizes and stuff.. like scraps..

What I got was 4 HUGE rolls of about 3" wide wet/dry paper with a very stiff
backing... in 120, 150, 180 & 400 grit...
They're probably about 12" in diameter, so I hung them over the lathe on a pipe
clamp, so I can roll off what I need... I don't even cut this stuff, just roll
off what I need, bend it in half and snap it off.. really convenient!

I turn every night and quite a bit during the day, and my wife sands a lot for
her pyrography, and we're maybe 1/3 of the way through the rolls.. the stuff
lasts forever!



mac

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