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Re: Agree *PIC*
By:Sean Dawe
Date: 4/17/2012, 9:01 am
In Response To: Agree (Jay Babina )

: Personally I never found one of those long flexible sanding boards
: necessary and I had one.

: I use a Home Depot wall board sanding thing. It's about 10"
: long and has spring grabbers on each end for sand paper. I use
: belt sander paper just cut to length. If you just use it with
: some artistry, you can easily get beautiful curves.

I'm with Jay on this one. I'm in the final sanding of my Black Pearl and I've gotten great results with a shorter sanding board. If you go with something of the size of the wall board sander, you can stay with standard sheet sizes and use the Norton 3X - which I personally find to be a superior product.

Attached is an image of a shorter block I made with a vacuum attachment. Crude but it worked.

Cheers,

Sean

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Strip: Fairing Board
danperry -- 4/16/2012, 7:10 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 4/16/2012, 8:29 pm
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danperry -- 4/16/2012, 9:03 pm
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Mike -- 4/16/2012, 9:59 pm
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danperry -- 4/16/2012, 10:30 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 4/16/2012, 11:05 pm
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dave g -- 4/17/2012, 12:08 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/17/2012, 1:38 am
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Sean Dawe -- 4/17/2012, 8:33 am
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ancient kayaker -- 4/17/2012, 4:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/18/2012, 1:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/17/2012, 1:36 am
Agree
Jay Babina -- 4/17/2012, 6:58 am
Re: Agree *PIC*
Sean Dawe -- 4/17/2012, 9:01 am
Re: Agree
Bill Hamm -- 4/18/2012, 1:43 am
What I use - Link
Jay Babina -- 4/18/2012, 7:19 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/22/2012, 2:07 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 4/17/2012, 6:28 am
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Will N To Go -- 4/17/2012, 7:30 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/18/2012, 1:47 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/18/2012, 1:49 am
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Etienne Muller -- 4/18/2012, 4:23 am
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Etienne Muller -- 4/18/2012, 4:25 am
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Mike Bielski -- 4/18/2012, 8:43 am
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danperry -- 4/18/2012, 9:29 am
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Dave Houser -- 4/18/2012, 4:05 pm
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Randy Echtinaw -- 4/18/2012, 4:12 pm
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Mike -- 4/18/2012, 5:15 pm