- 1). Attach a vice to a work table.
- 2). Clamp the belt sander upside-down in the vice. Make sure it is secure and will not move.
- 3). Put on a pair of leather work gloves to protect your hands.
- 4). Plug in the belt sander and pull the trigger to activate it. Lock the trigger in place so that it will stay on: you want both hands as you work.
- 5). Make pointed tools by holding a wooden dowel at a 45-70 degree angle against the moving belt sander. Constantly rotate the dowel so that the end sands away to an even tip, resembling a pencil. The greater the angle that you hold the dowel, the sharper the point will be.
- 6). Make rounded tools by holding the dowel against the moving belt sander as you did with the pointed tools. You will rotate the dowel, but also increase and decrease the angle that you are holding it against the sander to round the end.
- 7). Make scraping tools by holding one end of a dowel or flat piece of wood against the moving belt sander until it wears down, then flip the dowel and wear down the other end. Like the pointed tools, holding the dowel at a greater angle will produce a sharper blade at the end of the tool.
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