The Purpose of Sanding

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Summary: How to understand the purpose of sanding; get professional tips and advice from an expert on sanding for wood furniture and other carpentry in this free home improvement video.

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Kevin Mouton Kevin Mouton has spent the last four years making custom, high end, solid wood and veneer furniture for local and national clients out of a shop in Austin, Te... read more

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The Purpose of Sanding

Hi, my name is Kevin and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to be talking to you today on the use of sanding machines. When you're using sanding machines, primarily you're doing just that. You're sanding, you're achieving a smooth surface that is going to get it ready for finish to be put on the actual piece of whatever it is that you're building. On top of that, you can also use the sanding machines to shape and sculpt certain pieces in solid wood. We'll be talking about different grits of the sanding machines and when to use those as well. So some of the machines we're going to be taking a look at is belt sanders. We have a bigger belt sander here and then we have a little bit smaller one. They essentially perform the same task but this is for use on bigger things such as tabletops, and things like that. This would be a little more that you can get inside a cabinet, do some light shaping. It's a little more versitle; it allows you to get into some small areas that you can't get this much larger sander into. And then this is a random orbital sander, which is pretty much just a clean up tool for the work that the previous two sanders have done. These belt sanders are generally going to be used with heavier grits like, well you can start as low as thirty-six if you're trying to shape something, and then you go up into the higher grits, fifty, eighty, one hundred, one twenty, is when you really begin to get to smooth things out and achieve a real finished piece look. Then that's when you come in with the orbital sander to kind of take out these heavier machine marks that the belt sander is going to use. Then from there you're going to go to hand sanding for a truely smooth surface that's going to be ready for finishing.