Bill Hansen wrote: > Another great tool for carving minicell is a hand drill fitted out with a > wire brush. That does a great job of removing material quickly - but you > have to secure the minicell blank onto a piece of plywood, your driveway. > If you don't, the rotary torque of the wire brush tends to spin the piece > of minicell around. > (Carve minicell outside - preferably on a windy day so the tiny pieces of > foam "sawdust" blow onto your neighbor's lawn. It makes an awful mess if > done inside.) And add this to the list: right-angle grinder fitted with 50 grit paper on a 4-inch diameter pad. More controllable than the wire brush and produces a finer, cleaner surface -- even better than what the Dragonskin leaves. Down side: extremely rapid; easy to over-carve. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Apr 10 2001 - 09:15:09 PDT
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