Hi, am new to the forum and relatively new to woodturning. Had my lathe for about 18 months and made about 20 medium sized objects, mostly using hard maple.
Is it possible to sand with too much force, overheating my maple coffee grinder base and hardening the wood to the point where is was almost impossible to take any more wood off with a just-sharpened scraper? I had to apply more than one pound of force on the scraper to get it to remove more wood!
I sanded so much (and so vigorously) because I had much tear-out of the end grain and had to fold the sandpaper twice so I had 4 layers of sandpaper between the wood and my ungloved fingers to prevent burning my fingers.
Is it possible to sand with too much force, overheating my maple coffee grinder base and hardening the wood to the point where is was almost impossible to take any more wood off with a just-sharpened scraper? I had to apply more than one pound of force on the scraper to get it to remove more wood!
I sanded so much (and so vigorously) because I had much tear-out of the end grain and had to fold the sandpaper twice so I had 4 layers of sandpaper between the wood and my ungloved fingers to prevent burning my fingers.