DIY Sanding Disk Server
For Turners
by
18 Sep 2006
Materials:
1x4x20"* pine
1/4 or 1/8x4x20"* tempered hardboard
4x20"* plexiglass (or tempered hardboard)
2" hole saw (or whatever size for the discs you use)
2 or3 small hinges
*The exact length of the materials needed will be dependent on how many grits you want to have in this disc server and the size of the discs. What I did was just use a long piece of 1x4 pine, drilled my holes and then trimmed it off.
1. Chuck up your hole saw and drill one hole for each grit leaving at least 1/4" between holes. Be careful to keep your holes in a straight line or the subsequent ripping operation won't yield the desired results.
2. When all holes are drilled glue a piece of hardboard to the bottom of the pine you just drilled. Let the assembly dry. Make sure you apply glue around each hole you cut because when we trim it off the hardboard provides the strength to the thin circle pieces of pine.
3. Align your rip fence so that your blade will just rip off the edge of the circles. This should leave about 3/4" opening.
This next part is optional but if you keep your paper near where you turn you will want a cover on the assembly to Keep the wood shavings off the Velcro. I discovered this after most of the original pictures were taken and added it to the design.
4. Rip the plexiglas the same width as the assembly and cut it to length. I glued the hinges to the plexiglas with CA and screwed them to the pine.
5. Mark your discs using a Sharpie with the grit on the Velcro side and place them Velcro up in the server. I find that marking the discs serves two purposed. It is a visula indication of the grit when the paper is in the server and since I often reuse my disks, it's easy to determine the grit. You could just mark the server with the grit but then you be tied to that grit for a specific position.
Here it is in use. The first pic using your fingers to dispense a disc.
These next two show dispensing the discs right to your sander.
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