Card Scraping Epoxy in leu of Sanding

[Mark Turner]

I was sanding and sanding and sanding to get all the epoxy imperfections out of a wood door I'm building for the boat. Then I grabed a card scraper and woooosh, all my troubles were smoothed away just like that! I'm a rooky, but is there any reason why this isn't a revelation akin to sliced bread?

[ssor]

Sanding attacks the whole surface, scrapeing hits the high spots first. Runs, bumps, sags all yield to scrapeing much better than sanding, at least for the initial effort.

[gary porter]

Mark, too bad you had to do all that sanding, sometimes its just what is needed but the scraper is a pretty common practice amounst those building with epoxy,,,for good reason as you have disovered.
Gary.. smile.gif

[Steve Paskey]

Robb White did an article a few years back (WB 165, march/april 2002) about using a home-made cabinet scraper to smooth epoxy. The article includes directions on sharpening and burnishing the scraper for best results. His advice: "leave the sandpaper in the drawer."

[JimConlin]

Works on varnish, if it's cured enough.