huie------ How many sets of brushes do you think you've been thru on that thing?
I can’t speak to shaping with a sander (my boards are hollow wood and I shape the majority of the rails with the planer), but I’ve been pretty happy with Ferro sanding pads for my sanding needs. Dirt cheap, metal thread insert, seem as well balanced as my PowerPad, and lower profile. For $12-20, you can’t really go wrong.
Huie, what kind of dinosaur is that? I seen one of those back in my second grade class when we were studying about them.
1 and 1 spring for the throtle and i have a spare haaa’’
**hey gheto its a black and decker made in italy **
early days i let anyone sanding for me use it its had quit a work out over the yrs
its the old story machinery or tools buy the best
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cheers huie
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The best advice Huie.
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Your words keep coming back to me like an echo from a well; "It's always a trap!" I'll keep your advice in mind and proceed with planer in hand. Hd
I did my new board today and NO WAY, was I going to get my sander!
ah rescued from the hands of the rapeists you remain pure yorky
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cheers huie
Wow, I can’t believe the sh!tstorm of debate that I started. Woops.
Just to answer some of the issues brought up here, I asked the original question I am VERY new to shaping and it was suggested that I use a sanding pad to finish the shaped blank off and get rid of some lines from the planer. I haven’t tried it before but was going to give it a go. Instead I think I will just surform it down and then hardblock it, as many have described. I was looking to speed things up a bit but speed never goes well in my situation.
Speed kills.
speed skills are developed by risky behavior.
With a 'nothing to lose’circumstance
or attitude fostered by cheap or free blank
and a r&d shape and leftover glass,
like dirty or scrap ends, the adventure
of using rumored alternatives is
a quite romantic path to follow.
this is the case with machining shapes
with computer assist.The thing that the
CAD wizards leave out of the conversation
is the waste and complete wrecked blanks.
The sander and other shaping alternatives
were the domain of madmen and drunks
and psychadelic adventurers.
The conservative tried and true formula
is a wonderful thing but evolution is driven
by risky behavior and method adventure,
…ambrose…
Up The Revolution
happy hew year
shape a wierd board jan 1 .
When I was at Velzy’s (1957-1959) I never saw him shape balsa with a sander. Blanks were rough shaped on routing jig, he and who ever else was shaping used Skil 100s, block planes and Japanese kana planes. Someone else sanded the shaped blanks with a half sheet jitter bug sander. Then he would sand the rails by hand and do the finishing touches.
I would add capital strapped adolescents…
neva had much money in those days..............i learned to adapt..............100% !
i learned by shaping blanks/ boards with a hacksaw blade and block plane on a flipped picnic table bench over orange crates,in a garage .........bell,california...........sanders came next......... be it i already owned them............at 15...........in like 71...........you made do with what you had.
but really,sander,planer,shotgun..................just shape the dam blank already !
herb
…hello McDing, those pads are from Brazil and are somewhat similar to the powerpads
but they are not the thicker ones; again, they are similar to the power pads
Power pads Blue or red for flats, and yellow for rails. Check the speed maximums, and never exceed. Always use caution around edges paying attention to wheel direction and never move spinning wheel edge toward another edge or fin- fair away!
By the way; A few weeks back Reverb or somebody posted up a thread looking for a particular pad that was super thick.. I did a little looking around and I believe the pad is called the "Workman" pad. I think Surf Source had them but they appear to be out of stock currently
Like I said "Velzy used A planer".