What am I doing wrong?
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong. I am using a brand new 60 degree V carve bit with Centerline text carving into poplar wood. I carved the letters, sanded, dabbed black flat latex paint in letters let dry completly then sanded board face with 220 grit to get rid of excess paint. My problem is the finer parts of the script wording is very "chippy" and you can really notice with the paint inside now. Am I just not sanding enought to get below chipped parts? I was afraid of sanding too much and losing letter detail. Thats why I used 220 grit and sanded till I got rid of the extra paint on the board face. Where the bit goes deeper into the wood no real noticible chips. With centerline you have no control of the depth. Am I not sanding enough? Should I me using more aggressive grit? Should I not use poplar? I seen some great text projects where they used pine, I thought I was doing a good thing by using poplar.
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