Cool Material: Properly finishing a DIY project that involves wood is always a giant pain in the ass for one reason—sanding. It makes a giant mess that inevitably results in us getting yelled at. It’s hard to get into tight or awkward spots on the project and that always leads to screwing up the other surfaces by trying to get sandpaper (or worse, the orbital sander) into a rounded groove.
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These Sandables sound great to me! I know that many times I avoid a method of creating a project because I know that the sanding part of the method will be to hard due to odd shapes. So a sanding block that can change it's shape solves the problem very nicely. This simple tool will be able to open up new methods of creating projects that were unsaleable for me (and others) before. The one thing that bothers me is the safety. Putting anything other then food in my microwave doesn't sound like a great idea to me. So before I go buying any Sandables I will wait till the product has been tested very well by others.
I can see this becoming a standard tool in classrooms and prop shops in drama schools. Lets hope the product can really come to the consumer market.
Wow, a very neat product. I could see moldable sandpaper as being really useful in not only the construction but also installation of scenic pieces - sometimes you just end up with tight corners that can't be sanded easily because of an awkward shape. Stage Managers could also add one of these to their kit and have it ready to actor-proof something if a wood piece splinters (I think of the edges of stairs especially splinter in dangerous ways, and being able to clean it up easily all the way into the corner of the stair would be useful). This makes me wonder if other tools could potentially be made in this Play Dough-esque form - could you make saw jigs out of moldable clay? It would be reusable, where jigs sometimes use a board beyond reclamation, and if you cut through it accidentally, you could potentially just stick it back together without replacing a piece. Just a thought.
These look awesome. Sanding is always a pain even when its just a flat surface but as soon as you get in to corners and odd shapes sanding becomes even more obnoxious. This is one of the first attempts I've seen at attempting to remedy that problem. At first I thought they were always mailable but having them made out of something that is mailable when you need it to be and then hardens again is even better.
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