I need to up my sanding game. I just have a orbital sander.
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I love doing this. One of the great things about the GFUI, camera, and accurate calibration. Not really difficult at all. I know I cannot do this on the giant Universal laser at my local makerspace.
A real time saver when working with smaller material sheets/scraps.
And Iâve been told I need to make âneedle mindersâ like this. A friend said she could sell lots in her cross-stitch groups. On it!
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I used a combination of a disc sander, orbital sander and sanding blocks, with a dash of freehand sanding paper to round corners.
You could do it all with a hand block, it would just take longer. Grinding the edges down is a fair bit of material to remove, the disc sander was far faster than doing it by hand.
I use a ryobi like this one:
RYOBI BD4601G Bench Sander Green https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P8RK1JU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_3aN9Fb5DJD4X3
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Itâs a nice quick project. You should make a few. If you skip the inlay part itâs dead simple.
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Iâve never seen sewing needles that werenât plain steel. I suppose maybe someone is selling stainless or titanium needles that might not be magnetic⌠but the vast bulk of commodity needles are ferrous steel I think.
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As someone who sews, this is really classy:-)
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I have spilled what I discovered at that point stainless steel pins that did not pick up with a magnet 
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The best sanding will be done with your hand, perhaps with a sanding block assist 
Itâs simply beautiful! Any sewer would be delighted to put it to use.
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