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3M sandblaster flexible seems kind of nice

With my finishing of the hall table top I am finally getting to try out some new sanding products. After trying to do some light sanding between coats with my 400grit wet/dry paper I’ve been thinking there must be a better way. So I happened to see at Lowes, these 3M flexible rubbery sanding pads. I got to use it finally this morning as I buffed out the nibs. It’s the 400 grit pad and I used the small Detail Sanding Tool as a backer for it. It worked pretty well. A couple of light swipes across the finish and you can feel the nibs gone. You also get some nice white powrder on your hand. So just a heads up, it seems to work well and was much easier to use than the 400 grit wet/dry paper. TheĀ  rubbery flexibility is much nicer to be sure. So, 2nd coat on the table…one more Seal-A-Cell to go and then the final Arm-R-Seal begins. I wonder how many coats I should end up with on there. It is a table after all, but hopefully one that won’t see much use.