Ordinary sandpaper is a PITA to install on a French wheel, and open mesh stuff like Abranet can't be done at all (meaning without folds or lumps) unless tools are used to hold everything in place.
It's springy, it's sharp, and takes tin snips to cut cleanly. It fights being wrapped around something like a French wheel, in other words. And the coarser the grit the harder it fights.
Anyway, the key "ingredients" are a large handscrew wood clamp, a piece of plywood, a block of "memory foam", and a roll of hockey tape.
This piece was 80 grit, and it surrendered like a newborn puppy.
Pictures explain it better than words:
(anyone potentially interested in this will know what they're looking at)
It's springy, it's sharp, and takes tin snips to cut cleanly. It fights being wrapped around something like a French wheel, in other words. And the coarser the grit the harder it fights.
Anyway, the key "ingredients" are a large handscrew wood clamp, a piece of plywood, a block of "memory foam", and a roll of hockey tape.
This piece was 80 grit, and it surrendered like a newborn puppy.
Pictures explain it better than words:
(anyone potentially interested in this will know what they're looking at)
