by raimundo » 28 Jan 2010 8:33
Wrap some 320 around a bamboo chopstick and rub this all along the 90 degree edges of the stamped out pick (stamped out on a punck press, creates a cutbreak edge, cuts a bit then fractures through)
this will round those sharp edges as you hold the sanding stick, with the sandpaper rubberbanded onto it, and move the pick along it so that its sanding the edge at about 45 degrees to the planes of the edge.
this will also wear the sand paper down a bit to take the new grit and begin to reduce it to finer grit then do the same to the pick tip and the top edge of the pick shaft.
this is still the rough sanding, and the strokes are across the length of the pickshaft and tip,
when the sandpaper is worn and mellowed a bit, and the edges are taken off the pick, remove the sandpaper from the chopstick and make a piece of the worn but not torn paper with the sanding surface inside, put the pickshaft inside this and pinch it lightly between fingers while push/pulling the pickshaft between the sanding surfaces, this makes the lines of the sanding along the length of the pickshaft, count to about a hundred strokes this way, you are erasing the lines that the sandpaper made across the pick and leaving lines that are along the length of the shaft, this is the finish for that grit of sandpaper,
you can repeat this same method with another finer grit to achieve a really smooth surface,
Sandpaper becomes finer grit as it is used, the grit breaks against other grit of the same size and becomes smaller.
Wake up and smell the Kafka!!!
