Hi…
Santapers…or in the Rio Tool catalog…Sanding sticks… Page 249
in the 2005 cat…Color coded…
337-285 set of 5 (120G to 1200G)…about $10… You get sticks
themselves, and a belt each to start off with…
Then get 10 each of the belts…(220-1200 grit) about $55.00
total… Actually, you can probably omit the coarsest and the finest
grits… For some reason…the set of sticks has a 120 grit… The
replacement belts start at 220…
Or you get a set of belts 337-530…2 each of the grits… Since you
can rotate the belts during use…one belt goes a long way…
Part sandpaper…part file…point, flat, and linear sections to
work with…
Rio has the 1200G, which other suppliers do not show…
You’re set for life…if you do it by 10’s…
This is a humble tool, but once you have them, you will use them
again and again and again…
Gary W. Bourbonais
A.J.P. (GIA)
Oh yeah…another one…
6" parallel pliers, with a wire cutter built in on top… Rio
doesn’t show them…they only have the normal parallel pliers…
Sargent makes one…serrated jaws, with the wire cutter… These
will even cut music wire, which a lot of cutters only notch
themselves on…
If you want to, you can cover the jaws with masking tape, so it acts
like smooth jaw pliers…
Just remmeber…remove the masking tape after each daily
use…Masking tapes sometimes have crummy adhesive…the best ones
are actually less permanently sticky…
So…you should always remove them after a day use…
About…$30 or so…
Another one of them save-yer-butt kinda tools…