Flat, flat flat sanding block for the flat sides. On the curves there are a few places where fingertip->paper is the only way to get in there, but for the larger curves like body edge radiuses you can still gin up something curvy - but firm. Many moons back I bought a big roll of... inner tube rubber? Something like that, I use it not just for flattish curves (curvish flats?) but for many fingertip-saving tasks. (If your fingers are tired, they hoit mommy! and you're not even done yet, you will go too fast and/or get mad - both of which are textbook preparation for screwing up).
If I was just wandering the crib in search of something flex-y, flex-y enough to deal with a changing curve - but still firm enough to keep the paper from working TOO well right under a fingertip, and not well enough everywhere else - I might be looking at cutting a section out of a plastic shampoo bottle? Or dish soap bottle? If you think about what you're trying to do and envision what it would be like if it were to be done perfectly... your brain* may fill in the blanks in a surprising way! Right in front of me right now is a plastic vitamin bottle, I could saw off the top and bottom then cut the cylinder the long way. And have a doubled-layer sanding "block" if that seemed like a good idea and it's already curved, adorably. You just don't want any part of the paper either raised up or getting more pressure within a very small pointy area.
This might seem a bit piss-anty, but do the general/specific mashup/brain-squeegie thing and the light will come howling in. Or not.
If you've got any lumps on there that are enough to make you think that anything coarser than 320 grit would be a good idea - LIGHTLY SANDED - LIGHTLY - I personally would be scraping the lumps flat with... a scraper. You can buy the buggers, f course, but my little one is just a somewhat-sharpened 6" steel ruler and my bigger ones are just the back edge of a decent chef's knife or the side edge of a wood chisel. (the back edge of a pair of scissors? A piece of angle iron with one edge filed perfectly flat?.... ~?~)
*(the only tool which can't be subbed out with something else, maybe something better!) :redflag:
If I was just wandering the crib in search of something flex-y, flex-y enough to deal with a changing curve - but still firm enough to keep the paper from working TOO well right under a fingertip, and not well enough everywhere else - I might be looking at cutting a section out of a plastic shampoo bottle? Or dish soap bottle? If you think about what you're trying to do and envision what it would be like if it were to be done perfectly... your brain* may fill in the blanks in a surprising way! Right in front of me right now is a plastic vitamin bottle, I could saw off the top and bottom then cut the cylinder the long way. And have a doubled-layer sanding "block" if that seemed like a good idea and it's already curved, adorably. You just don't want any part of the paper either raised up or getting more pressure within a very small pointy area.
This might seem a bit piss-anty, but do the general/specific mashup/brain-squeegie thing and the light will come howling in. Or not.
If you've got any lumps on there that are enough to make you think that anything coarser than 320 grit would be a good idea - LIGHTLY SANDED - LIGHTLY - I personally would be scraping the lumps flat with... a scraper. You can buy the buggers, f course, but my little one is just a somewhat-sharpened 6" steel ruler and my bigger ones are just the back edge of a decent chef's knife or the side edge of a wood chisel. (the back edge of a pair of scissors? A piece of angle iron with one edge filed perfectly flat?.... ~?~)
*(the only tool which can't be subbed out with something else, maybe something better!) :redflag:
