Originally Posted by
Mountaincraft
Will sand blasting clean up carved hardwoods? or will it destroy detail?
[It can do both things.]
I'm most interested in removing the little marks left in the flats of pockets when my machine changes direction...
[It would wreck everything nearby before it did much to them.]
Looking for an easier solution that trying to hand sand all that out, while I gradually dial in, tram, adjust, and eventually rebuild my machine...
[Concentrate on getting your machine to work at the top of its form, rather than trying to fix everything it screwed up. It also might help to redo your toolpaths so that direction changes don't leave "witness" marks.]
I saw someone posted a small airbrush sized sand blaster from harbor freight a while back, and I'm wondering if that could be a temporary solution for me... or even something that I would use frequently regardless of how well the machine is set up...
[That's not likely to work too well.]
Seems like a sand blaster would leave a nice finish in consistently grained material... but I'm wondering if it would work on hardwoods...