hi, my name is kevin and on behalf of expertvillage, i'm going to talk to you a little bit about hand sanding. now that we've sandedthe piece with the random orbital sander and gotten this nice and flush and all the machinemarks out, it?s time to now go for hand sanding which is the final sanding that you'll doand that helps take out any machine marks and just really smooths out the piece of wood.another thing you're going to do on top of
old woodworking hand tools, smoothing it out is you're going to do what'scalled breaking the edges on the piece. that essentially involves a very light round overput on all the edges so that none of them are sharp or have any splinters on them. whenyou're hand sanding, it?s very important to remember to always go with the grain, thatway the scratches that the sandpaper mark
is making are always going to be getting finerand finer and they'll always be going with the grain and therefore they'll never be seenand the wood will just become smoother and smoother like this. long strokes all the wayacross the piece, not short ones, but just long consistent strokes and then once you'vedone that, when you come over and you want to round over the edge, you just roll it overuntil it?s just broken in soft until it?s not sharp anymore. it?s ok if you do more,but just make sure that you do the same on all of it, that way you have a nice consistentlook. same thing on the end. you just go right off the edge and roll it over until it?s anice, soft consistent edge and then from here, you're ready to do finishing.
