How to make tack cloth, sanding sealer and grit size chart

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How to Make a Tack Cloth
A tack cloth is one of the best ways to remove dust and grit before applying a finish, to make one soak a cheese cloth in water, wring out the water, soak it in turpentine, wring it out again, drip enough clear varnish on the cheesecloth to make it evenly gummy throughout. Store it in a jar with a lid to keep it from drying out.
Gently wipe away dust and fine particles.

How to Make Sanding Sealer Mix one part wood glue with ten parts water, apply with brush, let dry. This will raise the grain, sand smooth.
 
Save Your Sawdust
Before you start to sand a project empty the dust bag, when the bag is full empty it into a clean mustard or ketchup squeeze bottle. You will now have a supply of sawdust to match the project if you need to do the sawdust and glue fill. To do this squeeze some glue in the crack, then spray a bit of sawdust on it and work it in, repeat if necessary, remove excess.


Grit Size Chart

Retail Defination	Industrial Defination	Uses
Super Fine	600 600 400	Polishing metals, ceramics, stone and plastic usually wet. Not usually used for wood.
Extra Fine	360 320	As above.
Very Fine	280 240 220	Polishing finishes between coats, usually used wet.
Fine	180 150 120	Finishing bare wood.
Medium	100 80 60	First sanding for softwoods, shaping.
Coarse	50 40	Paint removal, rough sanding, shaping.
Very Coarse	36 30 24	Machine sanding bare floors, first cut.
Extra Coarse	20 16 12	Machine sanding floors to remove old coatings.