Hand sanding handle scales, hints and tips. SGW Knives

A few of the things I have learned to help make the finishing process of hand sanding handle scales a little easier and more efficient.
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[davefrank]

This was extremely helpful, I loved this video! Although I think you could have read and encyclopedia for 20 minutes and I would have e listened anyway haha

[markgoggin]

Try putting a vacuum on them. They absorb a bunch of oil and keeps it looking great and strengthens the wood.

[YTOG.]

Indasa has a sale right now on their regular backing rolls of sand paper. I just ordered 8 rolls for $12 usd per roll with just $5 usd flat rate shipping total . Not sure if you can get the same deal in your area but it is worth the search.

[raymondoreilly]

Hello from Ireland, I have just bought a buffing wheel, and I applied bee's wax and the brass lanyard pins go a dark color, my question is, is the wheels going to fast?
I tried true oil and it went dark....
So I used the bee's wax again but I used a towel and it was fine.

[stephenkeefer]

Great info!! Good on ya for lettin your doggy pal be with you. Hey what are your thoughts on making fillet knives?. I’m at the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA .

[ShelleyRaskin]

Would love to see what you used to build your stabiliser with, I used to use wood but had some issues with it, both with it cracking and with it getting damaged by kydex sheaths.
I don’t have those same issues with micarta and g10, but there is something about wood that’s hard to beat.
I have lots of rimu, just got hold of some puriri (nz hardest wood), kwila woks, ash is nice, maple hard but brittle, got hold of some desert ironwood - beautiful wood but it cracked, some lignum vitae - amazing smell and have just been given some ebony, enough for four knives I think, oh I tried some macracarpa too, a tad soft. All I use linseed oil with, although it was pointless with the ironwood and lignum, did not absorb at all!