Where do you buy stearated sanding disks?

[Mike Henderson]

I need to purchase a box of 5", 8 hole, 400 grit, stearated, hook and loop sanding disks. Where do you buy your stearated disks?

Mike

[Kent A Bathurst]

Mirka Gold. Available from all the usual suspects.

[Mike Henderson]

Mirka Gold. Available from all the usual suspects.
I have not been able to find the stearated sandpaper in Mirka Gold. Do you know who might carry it?

Mike

[Kent A Bathurst]

Well..............if you go the Mirka site, and look at the Gold sanding discs, they say it is stearated.

Other than that, I got nuttin.

I use this stuff exclusively, FWIW.

And - those discs are on Azon, the Woodworking online stores, yada yada yada...............

[Mike Henderson]

Well..............if you go the Mirka site, and look at the Gold sanding discs, they say it is stearated.

Other than that, I got nuttin.

I use this stuff exclusively, FWIW.

And - those discs are on Azon, the Woodworking online stores, yada yada yada...............
I checked Amazon and a few other places. None of them seem to carry 400 grit stearated. That's why I asked here - to see if anyone knew of a place that sells it.

Mike

[John Schweikert]

http://beavertools.com/mirka-1/mirka-sandpaper-2/mirka-bulldog-gold-sandpaper-1/mirka-gold-sandpaper-disc-2/mirka-gold-sandpaper-7/mirka-gold-sandpaper-disc-5-hook-loop-2.html?grit=33

they say it's aluminum oxide stearated

[Jon Nuckles]

Did you check Klingspor? I bought a bunch of 320 searated disks they had on clearance. I'd think they'd carry 400 unless the purpose of the clearance was to get out of the line.

[Kent A Bathurst]

I checked Amazon and a few other places. None of them seem to carry 400 grit stearated. That's why I asked here - to see if anyone knew of a place that sells it.

Mike


Ooops - I did not pursue that detail.............Sorry, MIke.
I don't have the 400g - only up to 320. :o

[Kent A Bathurst]

I checked Amazon and a few other places. None of them seem to carry 400 grit stearated. That's why I asked here - to see if anyone knew of a place that sells it.

Mike


Ummmm.........Mike..............

How about going to Mirka itself? Will these do? Sorry again for my earlier confusion...................

http://mirka-online.com/23-615-400-mirka-gold-5-in-8-hole-grip-vacuum-disc-400g-qty-50.html

[Peter Kelly]

Ummmm.........Mike..............

How about going to Mirka itself? Will these do? Sorry again for my earlier confusion...................

http://mirka-online.com/23-615-400-mirka-gold-5-in-8-hole-grip-vacuum-disc-400g-qty-50.htmlMirka-online is actually Beaver Tools as mentioned above.

Might be simplest to go to Klingspor's for stearate discs: http://www.woodworkingshop.com/category.aspx?id=21&f1=5%22+X+8+HOLE&f4=400+GRIT&f3=STEARATE+A%2fO

[Mike Henderson]

Mirka-online is actually Beaver Tools as mentioned above.

Might be simplest to go to Klingspor's for stearate discs: http://www.woodworkingshop.com/category.aspx?id=21&f1=5%22+X+8+HOLE&f4=400+GRIT&f3=STEARATE+A%2fO
Thanks, Peter. It looks like they have what I want. The fine grit stearated disk I'm familiar with are white in the grit. I'm not sure the Mirka are fully stearated.

Mike

[Kent A Bathurst]

Thanks, Peter. It looks like they have what I want. The fine grit stearated disk I'm familiar with are white in the grit. I'm not sure the Mirka are fully stearated.

Mike

OK - I'll bite: Educate me - what drives the requirement for stearated, Mike?

[Mike Henderson]

OK - I'll bite: Educate me - what drives the requirement for stearated, Mike?
Sanding a finish. On trays that I make, I like to put a "glass" like finish on the main part of the tray. When you do veneer, especially marquetry, there are many places where the veneer butts together. I use a clear filler on the surface before finishing but that doesn't really fill the voids.

So I shoot a couple of coats of clear finish and then start sanding the finish between coats (usually 400 grit but sometimes 320 grit). Regular sanding paper tends to form corms (hard spots of finish) on the sandpaper, and that tends to leave marks on the finish. Stearated sanding disks have a type of soap on the disks and the finish does not tend to gum up the sandpaper as easily.

By sanding the finish between coats (not enough to get back to bare wood) you will gradually fill (called "finish fill") the voids in the surface. When I'm satisfied that the surface is 'flat' (the voids have been filled), I'll wet sand with 1000 grit sandpaper, then rub out the finish with a medium polish, then a fine polish.

But to really get a good surface, you need to leave the item sit before doing the final part of the process. The finish will gradually shrink over time (weeks) so if you do the final sanding and rub out immediately, in a few weeks you'll be able to see the lines where the veneer butts together. It's not a lot, but I see it, so for something that's really "important" I'll let it sit for a while.

Mike

[John TenEyck]

Here you go Mike: http://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/vd83000/#.VN6-AS5Bn6E

John

[Kent A Bathurst]

MIke - got it - I was more or less up to speed on most of that - not at your level, tho - but the importance of stearated on fine finishes was not in my lexicon..........till now.

thnx as always...........