SANDING & POLISHING

Don’t stick cotton swabs in anyone’s ears, even your elephant’s, although the largest of these will be tempting. Our each is a giant 325-piece pack of single-tip cotton swabs on wooden sticks and in (6) different sizes. The smallest is about what you’ve got in your medicine cabinet, and the rest range on up to the elephantine, 8-1/2” long with 3/4” dia swabs on the end. Were thinking artists, art restorers, auto detailers, electronics techs, gunsmiths and fussbudgets of all sorts will love them.

You don’t even have to be rude about it because this is a set of (3) small cleaning brushes for removing rust, paint, grime and schmutz in general. They’re 7” long with plastic handles with 45-degree offset heads. You’ll get (1) each with stainless steel, brass and stiff nylon bristles. The brush area is 1-1/2” x 1/4” on all of them.

You do have tubes, don’t you? This 10-piece set of wire brushes includes (5) each in brass and stainless steel, all 12” long, with 4” long bristle sections with 1/4”, 5/16”, 3/8”, 1/2” and 3/4” dia bristles. Loops on the end are for hanging above the bench where you do your tube cleaning.

Life too dull? You need a whetstone, and this one, while it's not a stone at all, is a big improvement. It's a 4-sided diamond sharpening block, 6" long x 2-1/2" on a side, sitting snugly in a wooden holder with slip-resistant rubber feet. The sides are 200, 300, 400 and 600 grit, so you can work your way up to a razor's edge on knives, chisels, or anything that needs a little edge.

These are, anyway. This 6-piece set of flattened diamond files are 8-1/2" long x 7/16" wide x 3/16" thick with 3-1/8" of 40-, 80-, 150-, 240-, 400-, and 600-grit embedded in the business ends. Grips are rubber-coated to protect your paws. Everybody’s got something that needs filing, and these will last a lifetime.

Brusha, Brusha. This (5)-piece wire brush set for an electric drill will let you scour pretty much anything your little scouring heart desires. All have 1/4” shanks and 0.3mm brass coated carbon steel wires, and you’ll get circular brushes at 2" dia x 1/4" and 3" dia x 3/8"; cup brushes at 2" dia x 1/2" and 3" dia x 7/8"; plus a 1" dia x 1-1/8" wire end brush. Max speed is 4500rpm . They’re as fun to use as they are effective.

This nicely made 13-piece file set has a dozen diamond-encrusted files at 2, 4 and 6mm wide x 1-3/16” long with 120, 180, 300, and 400 grit surfaces. Includes a colleted 4-3/4” long aluminum handle, Go rub something the right way.

Each of the (6) diamond-coated carbon-steel bits in this set has a 1/8” shank for use in rotary tools. All of them are 1-3/4” long and include: a ball, cylinder, two sizes of cones, a spindle, and a point.

So you won't want to lose this 6-piece set of diamond burrs. They're on 1/4" shanks, and are 2-1/4" to 2-3/8" long OA, with approx 1/2" dia heads. The set includes one of each shape: cylinder, round-end cylinder, round, egg, inverse cone and pointed cone. All are #40 grit. Incredibly handy for those tough jobs!

Super-long Q-type tips are for people who don't want to get too close to their ears. Actually, these are tech swabs with cotton tops and wooden sticks for lab work, so leave your ears out of it. Good for other body parts, though, and for too many craft applications to list. You get (3) packs, for a total of (300) 6-1/4" long fuzzy-topped sticks.

We love these. You’ll get a pack of (8) double-ended swabs, like the cotton variety, but with sandpaper on the ends. Measure 1/4” dia with 5/8” long sanding tips on 6" plastic shafts  with 400- and 800-grit swabs. Great for hard-to-reach spots. We’re thinking hobbyists, crafters, model-makers, DIYers and anyone else with an eye for detail will wonder how they lived without these.

For those hard-to-reach contours, nothing beats a wet/dry sanding sponge. This one measures 4" x 2-3/4" x 1" and is marked "Very Fine/Fine, Tres Fin/Fin, Muy Fino/Fino," which we make to be approx 220 grit, although we didn't count them.