Raking and vibration picking

[yucki8aby]

its grey. comes in either wood pre-preparation, wood and metal, and paint. higher grit is only availiable for paint =.=

[UWSDWF]

it should be good for your application....

[Shrub]

If its sand paper its no good,

If its grit paper it will be fine,

To make a pick with only a file from a hacksaw blade you first need to soften the metal or else the first stroke you do on your file will blunt the file,

Heat the hacksaw blade up until it reaches a bright red and then put it down on a brick or somthing and let it cool down in air until cold,

Now holding your blade in a vice start fileing, push the file away from you on an angle and take it off the metal when you bring it back ready for pushing again,

Dragging or even trying to file whilst pulling back will also blunt the file,

Do long even slow strokes, its not a race,

Once you have finished your fileing de-burr it and then go back to your blow lamp and heat it up until bright red again only this time as soon as it hits bright red you need to dunk it in a bucket of cold clean water and stirr it until its cold,

Now dry it off well and then sand the sufaces until they are shiney, you arent after a good finish just a metal finish without the black from the heat,

Now you need to be careful and observent, gently heat the pick up again until it reaches a dark yellow colour simular to straw, as soon as you reach this colour dunk it in the bucket of water again and stirr, this must be done immediately,

I warn you that the change to yellow is very fast with little heat and then too much heat comes very fast after that so be ready to remove it from the heat very quickly very soon, if you go too much and start hitting the dark colours and then blue carry on to red hot again and repeat as before,

Once you have done that dry off well and then start polishing them up, picks dont have to have mirror surfaces to work they just have to be free of any sharp edges so concentrate on that first and then do whatever you want cosmetically,

[yucki8aby]

thanks for your tips. what's the difference between grit paper and sand paper?

[UWSDWF]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_paper

[Shrub]

Sand paper is made with sand,

Glass paper is made with glass,

Grit paper is made with grit or man made crystals,

Sand and glass paper are for wood, emry paper (grit paper) is for metals,

To finish off your picks you would use somthign thats called int he trades as wet 'n dry, this is a very fine grit paper on a paper backing insetad of the usual cloth emry paper normally is stuck to, the wet 'n dry is used wet on vehicle bodywork to to give a glass surface finish, a result that can be gained on your picks useing the same method,

The higher the number of grit is the more concentration of grit on the cloth, the grit also gets finer the higher the number, 600 upwards grit paper is fine for pick finishing,

[Deathadder]

To make a pick with only a file from a hacksaw blade you first need to soften the metal or else the first stroke you do on your file will blunt the file,

Yeah......... i learned that the hard way...

[yucki8aby]

erm is aluminium oxide paper okay?

[Shrub]

Yes but it will be dusty and you will get through a lot,

[yucki8aby]

more questions =x

erm i tried to use a fork as a tension wrench but somehow the first pin refuses to budge. did i put too much tension?

[Chucklz]

As a general rule, if your new you ALWAYS are using far too much tension. Were talking around the force required to click a mouse.

[yucki8aby]

oh woops. anyway i read somewhere else that you should always have more than 5 tension wrenches or something like that. what do i vary among these tension wrenches?

[Chucklz]

Size of the bit you insert, width of the part you insert. Twists, and whatever else you need to feel comfortable.

[Marco321]

I had the same problem, so i got myslef a dremmel ripoff for AU$50. It works amazing well, good quality and cuts through the blades well. The dremmel ripoff is great, does everything i need, its made by Ozito. I also have some diamond files which work well for finishing them off.

But im not sure if you will be able to get it cause you said something about not being able to get a grinder.

[yucki8aby]

so erm exactly how much did u spend on all your tools ONLY excluding baldes.