Art Jewelry - Make your own sanding sticks

hi I'm Addie kid with art jewelry

magazine I'm going to show you how to

make your own sanding sticks

you get a sheet of sandpaper but it's

not much use on its own unless you were

to tape it to a flat surface and sand

your object on it like that not that you

would sand a Sharpie but you know so you

would take your sandpaper and flip it

upside down we're going to wrap it

around this stick you can use paint

sticks or you can use what I've got here

which is a little sturdier I like to

have something that doesn't flex quite

as much I've got two I've already made

here and I marked them with the grit

that I'll be using so we'll start with

some masking tape and lay it along so it

just overlaps the edge of the paper

lightly press it to the paper without

adhering it to the table below and do

the same on the other side you want to

extend just a little bit beyond your

paper flip it over and take your wooden

stick put one end by the very top of the

sandpaper so that you have a handle at

the other end when you're finished wrap

the tape up over the ends and then I

like to score the sandpaper I'm using a

burnisher here but you could use a bone

folder or a butter knife just to run a

light line along the sandpaper right

next to the right next to the stick it

makes folding a little bit easier and

gives you a nice crisp edge later so I

hold this up tight I'm gonna run another

edge I'm gonna run another edge

fold that over make sure it's nice and

tight I'm adhering the tape as I go

score that sandpaper again just keep

going until you have a stick that's

fully wound with your entire sheet of

sandpaper I'm using 1500 grit here

you'll want to make a sanding stick for

every grit that you have that way you

can switch between them all as you work

this might take a while but it's

definitely worth it to have a nice

smooth hard surface to sand your objects

with and have a nice and handy on your

bench be sure you adhere that tape as

you go you don't want it popping up on

any side and it's okay mine's a little

misaligned it's alright if it kind of

spirals off like that a bit and it

doesn't have to be perfect and then at

the very end

make sure everything's smooth and wrap

your little last bit of tape around the

ends of that and then before you forget

to make sure to mark what grit it is and

as you use the the sanding stick you're

going to use this side first that has

the flap open on it you can use either

side but once you use this side then

you're just going to rip the taper off

at that side and then you have a fresh

sheet and keep using that until you're

back down to the stick