High grit sandpaper is absolutely wonderful for using on your pieces painted with Chalk Paint™ Decorative Paint by Annie Sloan! The fine sandpaper makes them as smooth as glass! Here is one ...

When sanding metal, the grit particles can actually become sharper, so you won’t have to change sandpaper frequently. Best For: Grinding away metal burrs and sanding rough wood.

Instead, try the “scuff and spray” method: Sand lightly with a high-grit sandpaper (at least 400 grit) or a green Scotch-Brite scour pad, then spray on a layer of professional-grade lacquer.

As long as the porcelain is wet, the sandpaper will “float” on the surface and will not scratch it. Water, fine sandpaper and elbow grease will do the job. Believe me, it works!

In addition to finding the right sandpaper grit for your project, and knowing when you can stop refining (and stop sanding!), proper wood sanding technique is also important. From the editors of ...

If you need to remove nibs or sags, you can wet-sand the finished product with very fine high-grit sandpaper. A 1,500-grit sandpaper is a good choice for hand- or pad-sanding.

A little finish sanding is all they need and if you don’t have high grit sandpaper around, you can use a brown paper bag.

For a lot of DIY painters, this is the time for wet sanding, using wet-or-dry sandpaper, starting at 1,000-grit and working up to 1,500 and 2,000.