Sanding a Wooden Hand Mirror

Video Transcript

"Now I have had my hand mirror shape cut out and now what I want to do is sand the sharp edge here off all around. I am using a rough grit an eighty grit sand paper and I am just going to fold it in half to give it a little more stiffness and go all the way around the piece. Sanding off to round the edge all the way around and then on the other side you do the same thing. So you have a nice and smooth rounded edge all the way around and you can take off as much as you want. Also when its cut sometimes its not a perfect smooth shape so any lumps or bumps that you see on the edge you also want to sand off. So go around and sand to take off that sharp edge and any other lumps and bumps that you find on the side and when you finish. When you finish with that then you want to take a one eight grit paper which is like a finishing much smoother grit sand paper and go over the whole surface. So that you don't have a real rough from the eight grit. You don't want to have a rough surface you want to have a smooth surface. So you will go over the whole, the whole thing sides and back with the one eight grit paper. The finishing paper. "