guitarmaker78 wrote:
Hesh wrote:
guitarmaker78 wrote:
I found a missing nut today that helps hold the adjustment. I realigned then I also changed the paper from 120 grit to 60 grit. I thought I had 220, but at some point I changed it to 120.
Now I’m getting much more consistent thicknessing.
Now I’m getting much more consistent thicknessing.
Cool may I suggest 80 grit is about the deepest scratches you want from a thickness sander on the woods we traditionally use. Don't want to have us fighting here over ROS any more than we have to.
I have a batch of low quality spruce I bought for testing and Last night, I ran a piece through the sander. You aren’t kidding. It won’t work. I’m going to have to take it back up to a higher grit.
It's been a while since I was building but I think I was 80 grit for hard woods and 120 for softer woods and that worked pretty OK with a Performax 10 - 20.
Someone back then ordered some 36 grit and could not use it, obviously so they sent it to me. I played with it and it was like a garbage disposal for wood. Put the wood in one side and nothing was left to come out the other side.
An exaggeration of course but 36 grit was way too abrasive for our purposes.Regarding deep scratches a huge part of building for me was learning where doing something at one end was going to create much more effort at the other end and thickness sander scratches are that kind of thing.