MUST Have for Sanders. Interface Pads

so today I'm here in New York at the Unida Factory I've got Sherry again with me once again she is the hand sanding expert there is another product that comes in oneida's kit that um is sold on paint life Supply Co that um you may if you buy the kit you may not know what the heck these are for they're called interface pads um look a little bit unusual we're going to talk about the interface pad and their importance and why you should be using them because they do serve a purpose and there's some times that you should be using them there's a open cell one and a closed cell one sharing so can you just talk to um our viewers that might be interested in getting that perfect finish and what they could use these things for well mostly these are used with of course all the time sorry not mostly but all the time with our sheet goods and the reason we have these is because the foam is great when you're talking in the Finish room on prime or anything like that it is the best the speediest way to sand between coats but a lot of times we'll get in areas where there may be you need a little bit more aggressive I know with conversion varnish that had been a problem with us in the past just some rougher surfaces and when we get into that we can't always use the phone because it doesn't flatten it out and that's the big thing is that if you've got a rough finish it doesn't matter if you sand it if it's still rough when you put your next coat you're going to still see that roughness so the interface pads gives us ability to to replicate the foam but with a conventional abrasive so this is the softer version this is the the soft 10 millimeter and it'll actually if you need to get down you can see this pillow top we don't want a flat spot but we can actually wrap into that pillow top right we have to be careful though because again while that doesn't level this does so you kind of you got to keep yourself off of The Edge work right this probably isn't the best profile because it's a little tight for this but it kind of gives us an idea of what the other profile that we can use is the which is missing now hand me that this is the a better profile to show it on if I want to sand this with the sander I can take this and I can actually use it to go all the way up into this right if I need it to be a little stiffer so this profile is a little bit shorter I want it to be a little stiffer I'll take a sheet good and I've got a little bit more um push into it the way I can actually get down into this deep profile right the other thing that I tell people all the time and this is not so much with the not just with the interface pads with but with the sponge don't be afraid to use that offset I do that a lot use that offset because that offset will allow you to get in here really good and close because getting down deep in here is hard yeah whether I'll do it by hand so so my question would be with um the interface pads do you need the interface pad if you have half inch sponges and what or if you do what's the difference between using this and this combination well there's a lot of times that this will not flatten out a rough finish right it won't fall okay right the other thing is is this if this was raw wood right right if you have knife marks all the way down you're molding yeah I've seen that a lot of times cannot get it out with even with a going to a course five inch sponge because that grain recedes I need that grain to stay more prominent but I need a little give so I'll go to the half inch interface pad and then that way I can get in and I can take out those knife marks or the milk molding marks the motor marks that you see so if I want to get a flat finish on a contoured Surface I'm not going to get a flat finish on a contoured surface with this because the grain is going to recede but on that I could get a flat finish on this side so that makes a whole lot of sense to me now so there we have it some good tips and tricks why the interface pad is actually you know in unida's kit so another thing that comes with unida's sanding kit is two different abrasives conventional abrasives we have film Tech and we have egg storm if you want to know when you should use one or the other or even what the difference is between the two because I know I've got that question on pay life Supply Co before in our next video we're going to talk about film Tech and echostorm so stay tuned for that video [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause]