My job as a technician for Dixon Abrasives is to make sanding make sense. This is not as simple a task as most people would think. Every part of the sanding process must work together to accomplish a ...

A: Chatter marks on the product are most often caused by the sanding belt splice. A good way to check is to use a black crayon to mark the splice. Then, run a new, clean workpiece through the machine.

Despite it's much easier to buy a new belt sander instead of making a new one from scratch, it was some sort of a challenge ...

Q. I've got several projects facing me, and some involve sanding large areas of wood. I don't have lots of experience doing this and wonder if you can minimize mistakes I might unknowingly make. I see ...

Faced with a project requiring a lot of sanding, [George] had two options. Suck it up and buy a belt sander — or re-purpose a tool he already had to do the same job. He chose the latter, and turned an ...

DEAR TIM: I’ve got several projects facing me, and some involve sanding large areas of wood. I don’t have lots of experience doing this and wonder if you can minimize mistakes I might unknowingly make ...