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Tricks of the Trade continued from page 20 Buffing Station in a Box My sharpening procedures involve a lot of buffing with compound. On one side of my buffer I've mounted a hard felt wheel, and on the other a paper wheel shaped to buff concave bevels. To prevent the buffing compound from flying all over the shop, I mounted my buffer in a simple plywood box that's open at the front. (You could do the same with a bench grinder.) I attached a small fluorescent undercabinet fixture (available at home supply stores) to the ceiling of the box, which makes it easy to see what I'm doing. The buffer and the light are both connected to a switch mounted on the box, so I can activate both at once when I'm ready to work. The top of the box serves as a platform to hold additional buffing wheels, honing compound, etc. while I work. Perhaps best of all, the box is portable. It clamps to my bench, but can easily be stowed away elsewhere when not in use. The setup works great and only took about an hour to build. Tod Herrli Marion, Indiana Use shelf for accessories Wire light and tool to switch • Fluorescent "undercabinet fixture Buffer or grinder Make box from 3/4" plywood Sanding Small Parts A lot of my shop time is spent sawing small parts on the scrollsaw. I thought I'd pass along some tricks I've figured out for sanding little pieces and getting into tight areas. First of all, if you lack a bench vise as I do, try clamping or screwing a handscrew clamp to the benchtop to create a sort of mini-vise. For larger parts, you can cantilever one jaw off the edge of the bench, as shown, so the lower part of the workpiece can hang below, against the edge of the bench. When using narrow folded strips of sandpaper to get into tight crevices, #220-grit paper proves to be a bit weak. I've found that gluing a sheet of #220-grit and a sheet of #180-grit back-to-back with spray adhesive before folding makes for much stiffer strip s. To sand larger edges, I use spray adhesive to glue sandpaper to ordinary kitchen knives, which are readily available at thrift stores if the wife objects to you raiding the kitchen flatware drawer. John Higgins San Diego, California continued on page 24 #180-grit back-to-back with #220-grit sandpaper makes for stiffer fold Adhere sandpaper to kitchen knives 22 Popular Woodworking December 2006 |
