Box Building #1: Thin Strip Sanding.

good idea, thanks

I like this.

I, too, use some thin strips for my rolling pins. I was using my single point bandsaw re-sawing jig as a fence but am unsatisfied with the “smoothness” of the finished strips. Hope you don’t mind if I “borrow” this idea.

Lew

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

That is SO simple, effective, and just plain COOL!

Thank you very much!

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That’s a good idea I don’t have a spindle sander but I bet you could do the same on a drill press with a DP table and a sanding drum

Thanks really good idea.

I have the wood for the fence, so now I just need the tool…
Really nice idea.
Best thoughts,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

great suggestion. I’ve sanded the sandpaper on my feed belt on my wide sander when going too thin. I’ll have to make one of these.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

You could do this with your drillpress too, but this seems like a better idea. I just hate drilling my tools though.

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com

Neat idea.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Ike, you could mount it to a piece of plywood and c-clamp that to your sander.
Then you wouldn’t have to drill into your machine.

-- She thought I hung the moon--now she just thinks I did it wrong

Kent, you just gave me an idea for my drum sander on the drill press.
I can see it would work on it as well. Thanks for the heads up.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

good idea Kent, i was planning on building an auxillary table for my thickness planer to achieve this. I may reconsider now.

-- RKWoods

Great idea Kent.

Sanding those strips has been a challenge.

This looks good Kent. I presume you are pushing the strip through against the rotation of the sanding sleeve and that the ‘back’ you are referring to is where the operator would be standing? Just checking because I tend to misinterpret back and front on machines.

-- Mike, American in Norway

You are right Mike. I’m standing on the right side of the machine, feeding right to left.
I let go of one piece and it shot back out of the sander to the right. Of course I wasn’t directly behind it. There is not a lot of force, but I would rather not be hit.

-- She thought I hung the moon--now she just thinks I did it wrong

I like the fact that you are not afraid to modify your tools to accomodate your work. Tools are meant to help you, and if it means drilling a small hole in the surface, then so be it. IMO, tools are meant to be used, and sometimes used up. I see folks building workbenchs using Paduk and such. I would never want to work on a bench like that, I’d be afraid of scratching it. LOL!

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