I really hate to sand! I try to avoid it like Covid-19. Thus it seems ironic that I have written a dozen blog entries on sanding.
Here is a cheat sheet for my students that sort of ties all of my sanding blog entries together.
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Old school wisdom says you can’t sand wet wood. i.e. something you turned out of a fresh log. You have to wait for the wood to dry out, then sand it.
If you try to sand with old school PAPER backed sandpaper the wood turns to mush and almost immediately clogs your sandpaper. You can’t wash off paper backed sandpaper with water. The paper just turns to mush.
Red Siasoft and Mirka Autonet are game changers. When the wood turns to mush and clogs up Red Siasoft you can do one of two things.
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Long ago Michael Hosaluk turned me on to using Siasoft Red Foam Backed sandpaper. I really like it. It is tougher than nails and works great on spindle turnings and wet wood. You can wash it out with water. Then reuse it over and over.
Red Siasoft works great for two things.
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Mirka Autonet sandpaper works great on dry or wet wood. It really excels at sanding wet wood.
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Abralon Sanding Pads are manufactured by Mirka. I use them to sand polyurethane when finishing things.
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Drill, Backer Pad, and Interface Pads are covered under my “Blue Flex Sanding Disks” blog entry. See http://carlford.info/blog/2014/11/blue-flex-sanding-disks/