Making wooden sandals (Scholl's style)

Step 10: Sanding the upper surface

The upper side of the sandal is sanded with a high-speed disk, removing the ridges between the tracks cut by the router and generally smoothing things out. The high-speed grinder is quite hard to control, so it is important not to allow it to remove too much material. Following the initial sanding, I repeated with a slower-speed disk (disk mounted in a variable-speed electric drill), and finished by hand with a medium-grit sandpaper.

There is a vacuum set up to one side of the work, with a large funnel to try and catch the dust. It was only partly successful. This sander makes a lot of very fine dust that gets on everything. It would be better to do this outdoors, or in some kind of booth where the dust can be better controlled.

Comments

[richie_114]

I've been using an old leaf blower as a dust collector, Well..... It shoots the dust out the window of my shop into the woods by my house.... makes good mulch as long as I don't let walnut dust go out there too.