Klarinet Archive - Posting 001172.txt from 1999/05

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: covering the holes from moving thumbrest
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 17:46:50 -0400

For really fine sandpaper check out a hardware store- particularly if they also have customers doing body work. I picked up several sheets of wet/dry that are either 600 or 800 if memory serves. I, like several others, use the wet/dry when I'm using it for reeds. Regular sandpaper will quickly disintegrate if you happen to use it on a wet reed. This said if you're also doing knife or file work do it before you sand- the sandpaper gradually loses the grit- some of which stays in whatever you're sanding. That abrasive is great for rapidly dulling any type of edge that you put on the blade.

Anne

At 09:57 AM 5/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks, Cindy.
>
>Query for the Sand paper experts out there. Is 220 the FINEST ? When I went
>to Wal-mart recently all I could find was 180. The 180 had a ADHESIVE BACK
>which would be nice and useful in making a "tool" to sand reeds, etc. I
>realized that the 180 wasn't high enough at the time in Wal-Mart. Does it go
>any higher than 220? Does Ferree's sell a small hand sanding tool and
>sandpaper?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mark Weinstein
>

Anne Bell
bell@-----.net

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