Sanding marks

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Techniques
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No matter how hard I try I always get sanding marks. How do you guy deal with this problem?

Thad

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Increasingly fine sandpaper. Start out coarse and work your way down to very fine grit. Each step will remove some of the sanding marks from the previous step. You can just go from coarse to very fine, but the very fine grits don’t cut much so it takes forever.

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…and if i might add…use’em wet…it’ll help carry the sanding residue away in the water and keep said residue from clogging your sandpaper…and/or gouging furrows in your subject…

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Musiccity, That is the current way I am doing it, I was hopeing for a different way maybe.

Cirikili, I have not tried to wet sanding, I will give it a try

Thanks

Thad

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What grade of paper are you using?

I generally sand wet with 600 grade wet’n’dry, then finish off with a nail buffing stick, working from roughest to finest. This usually leaves a polished surface.

Karl

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How about use some plastic polish??? I get rid off some fine sanding marks with Tamiya polishing compound and water…

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Thanks for the info feli250, I will have to try that

Thad

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I use the sanding methods as stated above but I finish with very fine synthetic steel wool.