Anyone have some fine sawdust?

[tommorichards]

I'm building a bass at the moment, and ive done a bit of routing where i needent have. So im wondering if anyone out there has a big ol pile of dust from sanding some light coloured wood? The bass is ash, so anything in that colour region would be awesome.

About a cupful would be idea, as it would be stored for later use. But anything round a handful would be well appreciated. Ive had a look around ebay for this sanding dust and come up short, and ive had a go at wood filler, but its not that great.

Cheers Chaps.

[Dingus]

If no one has any to offer you , haveyou thought of getting a cheap offcut of wood the right colour and making the neccesarry dust yourself ?

[TRBboy]

Maybe post a pic of said balls up and see if anyone's got any other ideas? If its large enough to require that amount of sawdust I would probably try getting an offcut of ash and crafting a piece the right size and shape. Always looks better if it's do-able

[xilddx]

I could make you some out of John Hall's head if you want? But it won't be fine.

Edited June 12, 2013 by xilddx

[tommorichards]

I was basically routing around a pickup hole to make room for a sunken pickup cover to lie flat with the surface. But its quite rough. About 5mm all around and about 3mm deep. I was planning on making a larger pickguard to completely cover it anyway, but just so when i took it off, it would look alright.

[KiOgon]

Pet shops sell bags of it - don't they?

[tommorichards]

that stuff is too coarse for my use. Im after the stuff left over from when sanding.

@dingus. i could, but it would take too long, and i dont really want to as it would turn me into a sandstorm. Last time that happened, well, you've seen spiderman......

[mushers]

could probably empty the bag on the back of the chop saw for ya will mostly be mdf dust tho

[TheGreek]

your local friendly Timber merchant?? local school woodwork dept? (do schools still have these??) know a friendly carpenter??

[Roland Rock]

I harvested some for you at the workshop today. My current project is unsteamed beech, so I have some very pale dust, I'd say not far off ash dust.
I have a small Tupperware tub of it ready to send if you PM me your address.

[Grangur]

If Roland Rock's kind donation isn't right, you could also try WS Jenkins in London - [size=4]www.wsjenkins.co.uk [/size][size=4]They supply wood varnish and fillers to the furniture french polisher market.[/size]

[size=4]Another possible source is [/size][size=4]http://www.morrells.co.uk/[/size]

[size=4]Good luck. Let us all know how it goes.[/size]

[tommorichards]

Its alright chaps. The almighty roland rock has sent me a nice little tupperware tub of the stuff. It should do nicely.

Cheers everyone!

[Roland Rock]

Glad you received it, and glad it's suitable.
FYI I packed it really tightly, compressing it with a big mallet. You should find that there's about two mugs' worth of normal dust in there. Hope the repair goes well.

[Count Bassy]

I know you're sorted now, but if you built the bass you must have offcuts of the original blank, and some sandpaper, hanging around?