Post #399366 by JohnnyP on Wed, Aug 6, 2008 10:43 AM

I've been carving some of my tikis way too deep and I have a had a terrible time cleaning up the wood in those crevices and have tried all sorts of things with not much success. My dad was cleaning up a piece of metal with a simple bit that held sand paper in his die grinder. I've seen and used these before in 3/32 and 1/8" bit sizes, but what he was using was a homemade 1/4" bit just long enough spin heavy duty sand paper close to the collet. The lightbulb went off. I bought some 1/4 cold rolled steel rod and cut a length long enough to reach the bottom of a crevice on a carving.

Use strips of sandpaper torn off of old beltsanding belts because the cloth is both flexible and heavy enough to handle the abuse. Run this slow in your Foredom and you can really sand deep into those pockets. Since it is only 1/4" diameter it can reach into some really confined areas. I plan on making several different lengths of these.

If anybody has other solutions to sand and clean up saw marks in those deep crevices please post them.