Hi !
Listen I will try tto make this shorter in length . So , If I forget something , or you have something to bring to our attention , Please ! Do So !
You know many years ago I met my first piece of sandpaper .Dry , messy , dusty and totally unsatisfactory except for removing a gross amount or material .You could have glued pieces of this stuff to a bald tire and increased it's mileage !
Years later , after learning about the various grits from superfine to extra coarse I graduated to Wet-or Dry ! What a relief . No dust and I could actually sand under water ! Now the sizes here went from very , very coarse to so fine that when dry you couldn't feel the grit .
This leads me to the main intent of this letter . Sanding Boards ! Many of the hobby distributers and hobby manufacturers have gone here, even to the point that if you buy them out of the container at the register they even say Squadron , or some other well known hobby name on them .
This is all well and good but the range is still limited as to Grits and Quality ! I have found , for the general usages , you can do well by acquiring them from Beauty supply houses today . They come in long rectangles with the grits painted on the face and it gets as fine as what would be a polishing board ( Let's see , that would be 8,000 grit )
Some , like their hobby counterparts have rounded ends . the ones I get look like planks of sanding material with two grits to a board .Also , and this is important, you can put a steel rule on them and split them length-wise ! So for future thought Include Sallys and other beauty Supply houses as another source of Sanding , painting and weathering supplies .
Now for you die-hards .If you can't get to a Tru-Value or Ace hardware you are out of luck .I've not seen anything like this at Lowes or Home Depot . Harbor Freight sometimes . I say this because I have a Micheals , Hobby Lobby and Joannes within driving distance , but they don't always have these items in stock .
Hobby - Town is 47 miles away and they don't always have these types of items in stock either . So It's Ulta or Sally's for me .the Colors of finger-nail polish will cause Auto Builders to become comatose , There's that many ! So , in closing , don't short yourself on sanding supplies and remember Body Shop supply houses are always an option if they will sell retail ! Bye -T.B.