[Cardboard Remake #07-5] How to make a long wallet

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"How to make a cardboard remake long wallet" This is the final installment (5 parts total)!
With this, the wallet is complete! Today is the finishing process.

Step 7: Finishing the edges

Sand the edges (the border parts) with sandpaper around 400 grit. Once sanded, rub them thoroughly with a burnisher (corn slicker) to smooth them out.
What? You don't know what a corn slicker is? It's like, made of wood, has grooves, and is a weird stick-like... well, how should I put it... it's a strange tool you use to rub things! Man, it's hard to describe in words!

Ask Google-sensei
(passing the buck)

Well, if you don't have a burnisher, you can make your own by carving a bamboo chopstick from 7-Eleven or something similar.

This is before sanding. I didn't have 400-grit sandpaper, so I tried using 1500-grit (for plastic models) and it didn't work at all. I'll go buy some at the 100-yen shop next time.

This is after sanding, more or less. Rub it with the burnisher (corn slicker), and finally, apply a thin coat of wood glue to the edges, and you're done! You did a great job.

Looking back

Man, that was fun, but it was quite a long journey to get here. The production time took a full week, totaling 6 hours. But the feeling of it coming together little by little is interesting, so everyone, please give it a try!

I'll make something else again!

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