Small Sanding Drums For Edge Finishing

[Kelvandor]

Hello all!

I'm one of those that always seems to have bits and pieces of general stuff around my shop for all kinds of crafts and hobbies. When reading up the 'How-To' on getting good edge finishes and seeing the parts about sanding the edges first with small sanding drums that would fit in a drill, I figured that I had enough stuff around that I could make my own.

I started with small wooden spools I had left over from another project. You can pick these up at any craft store for $3 a bag of 20 spools. I took some dowel that was just big enough around to fit in the spool hole and cut some short lengths to use as a shaft; about twice as long as the spools. Then I glued the dowels into the spools using some yellow wood glue.

After that, I cut some sandpaper in different grits to fit around the spool and glued the paper on the spools. I used 150 grit and 220 grit here and used glue-stick on the sandpaper back. Just make sure you have glue right up to the edge of the paper.

I left one spool blank to use as an edge burnisher/slicker.

After all the glue dries, just chuck it into your drill and sand away!

Just with a quick tally, I think you could put together a dozen of these for less than $10 even if you had to buy everything new.

Hope these are a help!

-Kel

[terrahyd]

Hi Kelvander;;

nicely done ,,will need to give them a try ,,good idea ,thanks for sharing with us ,,,,,good go bud ..Doc..