Woodturned Basket

Page 3

by Andrew Hilton
(Hi Jennifer!)

The Handles and Finishing It Up

	Now on to the handles.
	Pretty eh? ha!
	I start off with a large size sanding drum on the Dremel.  Rough grit.  All I'm doing here is getting things somewhat the same thickness all around and starting to round off the handles so they're not so flat looking.
	Oooops!  See that handle at the top?  I got too excited and put too much pressure on it.  It snapped just a little.  That's supper glue.  No problem, though.  You won't see it later.
	Rough sand-shaped.
	To get into those corners and small places, I use a carving knife.  Go easy.
	A small sanding drum with a fine grit.  Final sand-shaping.  Round things over and get rid of the rough sanding marks.
	Done with fine sand-shaping.
	Here I'm using a progression of sandpaper to final sand.  Here's a way to sand those rounded areas.  On such small items, you can't get your hands in there everywhere so you have to be creative.
	*cough * cough*
	Careful when hand sanding too. Things are thin   Support those areas as much as possible with your hands or even stuffing a rag in there (or balloons or foam or whatever) to support things.
	Before parting off, I had final sanded the outside "bowl" portion of the basket.  Here, I'm sanding off the nub left behind. That's it.  Hope this helped.