Turn Your Scrap Wood into Cool Sanding Blocks 

The advice on blade alignment on a plough-groove is priceless. Simple and wise - only obvious in hindsight. Thank you

Wow.... more care and attention into making a sanding block than some seem to put into finished projects, what a teacher absolutely enjoying watching your videos... thank you William

It is so nice to have you back and making new videos. Your advice and teaching methods are always spot on. Keep up the excellent work.

This man is a perfectionist in all that he does. The technique and skill applied to a seemingly mundane project will , if you’re smart transfer and enhance your most demanding projects. Thank you William!

Here's to you landing one of those big money hand modeling gigs and putting those big handsome hands to use.

It is a treat to watch you work!

I see a William Ng video and I press play. He uses some bizarre ancient measuring system, but his ideas are gold.

Another video so soon? You're spoiling me!

Great to see you posting videos regularly! Thank you

Glad you are back.

Very happy to see him back with new videos.

Always a treat to see a new video from you William ! Good stuff might give these a try ..

Always happy to see you back William. You are a true wealth of information!

I was looking for this idea a long time ago and I got it right here!! Thank you very much!

I appreciate the simple projects, thanks.

It’s really nice seeing you again! Thanks for the great ideas

Whoa... two new videos in the same week? Yes! Things are looking up! Thank you!

Thank you very much William. I like the way these blocks use and will make a few for myself.

Very clever. Thank you for showing us. 🙌🏼

Thank you, these simple projects make life more easier .

You are an awesome teacher! I can’t wait to make some of these! Thanks!☺️👍

Great job! I love it. Simple, easy and useful

Such a simple project but such great tips.

I’m so happy to see you again. Each video is worth its weight in gold. I can’t wait to take a class with you...I live around the corner in Placentia. Thank you sooooooo much.

Perfection is doing each small step really, really well. Thanks for sharing!

You are a master William . Keep the videos coming .

I am really happy to see new videos. I've learned a lot by watching over the past couple of years.

A pleasure to watch, appreciate the deadpan humor and you prove once again, it's not what you make but how you make it! Cheers!

Nice! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

I have been wanting to make snding blocks for some time. Thanks to you I can now do it right. Thanks for sharing your talents.

Fantastic sanding blocks. Thank you sir.

Thank you for taking the time to also do these videos. I swear I learn some new every time. The fact that you teach classes and do these videos show your love of your talent. Stay safe.

Always good advise and technique. Keep’em coming!

I absolutely like how you explain the things you do, how you advice and why you advice it. I wish you all the best!

Yes----I am definitely going to make some of those!!!! THX

Wonderful video. Priceless advice!

Tnx for ur good guidances. I glad to see your projects.

You can always count on William to put a great presentation with useful information that you may use for years to come. Thanks for this video Mr Ng.

I appreciate the details. Thank you

Yay William is back. Haven't watched but I know it's going to be great with a dash of humour

First time viewer and I love your style of video making, so clear, calm, and informative! Easily jumping on board!

From a distance (Northern New Jersey USA) I appreciate how your methods teach production precision.

It’s a great video. Even us older guys who had shop class in junior high and high school, no safe spaces back to then, we don’t even remember a lot of the things we learned back then.

Beautiful

excellent and wonderful craftsmanship and attention to detail.

Brilliant!

So nice to see you back. Look forward very much to learning from you. You are very clever and a great teacher.

Another excellent video from the operating suite of wood surgery.

perfect application for a rotary cutter that is commonly used in sewing... like a wicked sharp pizza wheel...

Thanks for sharing. That was great information.

Very well done......great little project!👍

Great job.

I live right next to that college. Thanks for letting me know about their program there.

Just found you through recommendations. Subscribed. This is a great little project.

I attended Cerritos College years ago. It was great fun

Awesome stuff, thanks for the info! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

A call for a Hand Model job very hilarious. those sanding blocks are outstanding sure I made some for my shop. I always use a scrap of wood but now I know how to make better ones ;-) thank you very much for the inspiration.

Excellent Thank you sharing

Nice. Excellent idea.

Brilliant! The tip on measuring to the far side of the blade is priceless, thank you. There is only me in my shop but I'm making several so I can have one for every grit. Stay safe and thanks so much for taking the time to produce these videos. Cheers from BC!

William ,, I think you beat yourself up in Past Videos ,,, I just started watching about a couple months ago and I can tell you from yrs of watching others ,,, I LOVE your Chanel ,,,Your super easy to follow , Love watching you make sleds ,,, Thank you very much !

By using different router bits you can create concave groves to sand finish detail edges. Excellent information and execution.

Well done.....thanks.

Hi William, thanks for the great tips especially the dado tip. Being in Phoenix, we had problems with heat release on laminated products. One of our suppliers recommended a spray contact adhesive called TACC. Available in spray cans & canisters for pressure/siphon systems & a higher release temp. A sanding block we used a lot was fit to used sanding belts. Break the end corner edges to keep from tearing the belt. Take care hand model!😊

I personally appreciate you young man I thank you for your knowledge may God Almighty continue to bless you and your business.

I wish had scrap wood that good!

Made a few and using them already.

I will (most likely) never make these sanding blocks. But, I learned some interesing techniques, and really enjoyed watching the video.

Thank you for coming back and sharing your knowledge. I'm looking forward to getting back into the shop after a bad industrial electrocution accident as a welder/fabricator. I'm having physical and PTSD issues, but I'm not going to give up trying to get my dream shop. Thank you for all of the great ideas. I hope to see you at your classes soon.

Muy bueno el vídeo y se nota que eres profesional !! Like

I'm so happy to see you making youtube videos again William. I'd like to see a similar style video for batching out push sticks, it'd be nice to always have a fresh one on hand when they get grooved up.

I've been waiting on this video for a long time! I saw your sanding blocks when Marc Spagnolo videoed your sharpening class

3:55 Seems so obvious, yet never gave it a thought until you pointed it out. 👍

Imagine what the wood William Ng has that's not scrap looks like.

Traveling and taking a class from you Ng is on my bucket list. Someday.... someday....

This is a superb video! I have made two batches of sanding blocks, and I’ve made a discovery perhaps others will find useful. I hate sanding. To make sanding less miserable, I keep five dedicated sanding blocks loaded with 80, 120, 180, 220, and 320 grit sandpaper. Unfortunately, the optimal wedge width varies with the grits. My solution is to purposefully cut the wedges a little bit wide. I made a simple jig that fits in my bench vice. The jig has stops in two directions to securely hold a wedge. I then "fine tune" each wedge width using a block plane. A nice bonus is the block plane removes any saw blade marks.

Give me that 1:11 scrap baby! LOL! Thanks for the great video William!

Great video. Your sanding blocks are better than the "furniture" I make. : ) Mahalo for sharing! : )

Must say I "poached" these years ago after seeing them in your videos. Reverse engineered them and have been using them for years. Highly recommended!

you said you dont have many friends ...please be my friend with all those amazing tools and techniques lol Awesome video

I aspire to be as good at my job as William Ng is at his.

That’s a heck of a sander

Dam! I never knew a block of wood with sandpaper wrapped around it could be so complicated!

Gracias! Extrañaba sus videos.

Amazing technique. Loved watching this. Any bandsaw videos?

You got a friend here.

Everything I've seen you do is at an absurdly high level of precision. Just once, I'd like to see a video where you go, "Meh, this could be better but it's good enough." Kidding aside, I always learn something useful from your videos. Thank you.

Not that I have anything against a nice, accurately cut and made sanding block, but I've been sanding things since I was a young boy and now in my 60s I still haven't found the need for a super accurate sanding block. Just about any block of wood will do. Flat helps, but not absolutely necessary for most jobs. In shop class it was just a chunk of wood with a piece of really worn out piece of paper.. Maybe it's just me, but youtubers have seemingly promoted the humble sanding block above the status of the saw.

The first of your videos I have seen. Outstanding and humorous. Did you ever get the hand modeling job?

Is there something on the front edge of that bandsaw that momentarily turns maple to butter? Despite my best efforts, I continually learn stuff from your videos. I also love your side comments, but sometimes have to struggle to hear them. I always give you a thumbs up before I watch.

I suddenly crave ice cream sandwiches, think I'll go get some right now.

Hello Mr. Ng i have enjoyed watching your channel. Im also an Ng. Im here in Ventura and recently started woodworking and picked up a used skillsaw table saw. I am wanting to make a sled for it but have run into a problem with the guides on the table having notches. Any suggestions for making a sled for my saw? Its a model 3410 Skillsaw. Thanks again for a the great videos.

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Simple leads to mastery, thank you for showing the "simple" details in making these high quality tools. Always a pleasure viewing your posts. Hope to make it to sunny Cali one day to visit a friend in Venice, I'll be sure to stop by!

I miss little William! 😊

So glad to see more videos. You let the contact cement fully dry before adherence correct? Loved the hand model joke. Excellent content as always. I'd love to see a construction & setup of homemade japanese/chinese wooden hand-plane video. Thanks!

Don't worry about putting up videos. It's not about quantity for me. Happy when you post sth

Awesome idea, sir, as per your usual videos. The water based 3M contact adhesive is a new one for me. Do you find the bond strength comparable to the "old nasty stuff"? I assume you do the same with the water based stuff: apply liberally to both surfaces and let let dry, to the point that (unglued) paper wont immediately stick to the glue before joining up the two pieces?

I now know the secret behind these, thank you very much William very useful

Mr Ng You said you don’t have many friends.!! I see 137k+ that consider you a friend. A true friend is willing to show the easy and mundane to his friends that just can’t grasp “its easy as 123” My friends think a sanding block is a motorcycle rider with no helmet and shorts sliding down the 57 freeway at rush hour.

Thanks William for the sand blocks great tips. What type of sand paper were you using and the courses paper you start with? Looking forward to seeing you on the next video.