Intricate sanding advice

[blakes11]

Afternoon all,

 

Does anyone have any adive regarding sanding into tight gaps? I'm just finishing up a newel cap and I'm pretty happy with it. All I want to do now is sand it. Trouble is I can't get into some of the spots easily and the contrast between a poorly sanded area and a good one is pretty noticeable.

 

Should I just be attaching the varying grades to a lollipop stick or something and doing as good a job as possible or are there any tricks to it? How do you avoid sanding against the grain too?

 

Hope you can help.

 

Cheers

[Chunkymunky]

Personally i would consider a light coat of sanding sealer. Then buff up.

[harvey b davison]

Have you thought about a dremel. Like the idea for the newel post.

[muttley9050]

Dremel for me too. Very useful forvthis kind of thing, but be gentle.

[blakes11]

Nice one guys, thanks

 

Yeah i've got a dremel and did end up using it this time. Completely agree with the 'go steady' comment though as my initial experience with it on another project resulted in gouges to the surface where i'd completely misjudged the effect it would have. Much better this time around though.

 

Applied some neutral coloured bees way and buffed it with the dremel too and its come out quite nicely.

 

Cheerss again!