How to sand the hard or the easy way

[@jason-hh6lu]

Sanding is one of my favourite parts. Rotex 150 especially on rough wood working up the grits from 40 to whatever is needed. 👍🏻😊 cold video.

[@workshopdojo]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@williammorales8204]

I def. been doing this wrong, but I"m just a weekend joker doing house projects.. I used 40 grit once when my s.o. want me to cut some tree trunks in slilces (branches in the uk, probably) to make centerpieces for some party.

[@workshopdojo]

If you have the time, and you really want the finish to be as perfect as you can try working your way through the sand paper grits

[@toolchuck]

Mr. Dojo, am I missing something? Please don’t take any of the following as a “dig “, but why would you ever need to use 60 grit, let alone 40 grit paper for? These grits are typically for stripping, and not finish sanding. If you find that you “need” to use 60 or 40 grit paper to clean up or smooth out the surface of your wood, something isn’t right. Your wood should be milled (when bought or milled by you) and processed by your equipment (sawing, planing, etc.) to a level that 80 grit should be the coarsest you’d ever need and even that should only be used if necessary. You stated that you start with the grit that will take out any defects such as scratches, dents, etc., which many woodworkers, including myself, agree with. It might be 100, 120, or 150 grit, there’s no need to sand coarser than what is needed to clean it up. If you try 120 and it isn’t working or is taking too long, drop down to 100, it is much easier to do that than to start at 80 needlessly. Some think “going through the grits” means starting at 80 and then progressing through each and every grit until reaching whatever the final grit is that they have chosen. I think they believe or have been led to believe that this is necessary to condition the wood or something, I don’t know for sure. Grit progression should look like this, if you start with 80, then 120, 180, 240 or up to what whatever grit size you want. If you start with 100, then 150, 220, again up to whatever grit size you want. The grits, 80,100,120,150,180,220, 240 (these are the main finishing grit sizes) weren’t meant to be used one after another, but to allow for a wider range of grits to start from and end with. I apologize for the long comment, but I'm very passionate about sanding. I could go on, but I think this is my 2 cents for now.😎 All the Best, Chuck

[@workshopdojo]

Really nice details and you are absolutely right, I came from a builder background and we tend to be a bit heavy handed in using sandpaper, your comment is perfect for people to get a real world idea of where to start with grits

[@toolchuck]

@@workshopdojo It took me a while to learn what I know now (and still learning) from my own experience but mostly from being very fortunate to have been around very skilled woodworkers that have shared their knowledge with me. I really enjoy your videos, I look forward to each and every one of them. And until I know what your name is, Mr, Dojo will have to do. 😜 I love quality tools and have become a Festool fanboy with no apologies, but I did just but a Mirka Deros 650 5mm orbit. 🤦‍♂️ I wanted to see what all the hubbub was about, it's a darn nice sander, dual size, 125 and 150mm, low profile and it is exceptionally light. I do like the Abranet paper, but time will tell. The yellow systainer does look a bit odd amongst all my grey Festool systainer though. 🤷‍♂️ All the Best, Chuck