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At a store for art material I bought a roll double sided adhesive of 12 inches wide and 10 feet long. It's not tape, it's a thin film of adhesive on paper backing. It's used for glueing artwork (it's acid-free) and photographs to cardboard or whatever. This is the best stuff to use for a lot of things!!! It's better than spray glue because it has a little 'body' and you don't have the dripping mess the rubber cement will give you.

It is also a lot easier in use. You put a piece to the back of your copied drawing, rub it for firm attachment, cut it out with a scissor and now you have a 'sticker'. Tear off the backing and glue it to the wood.
And here's the best thing... It takes a long time to dry up or get hard. After work is done, you can pull off the paper template and the adhesive you can roll/rub off with your thumb. Your parts will be clean.

I also use it to glue sanding paper to wooden sticks, which proves it is 'heavy duty' enough. (After weeks, when the sanding paper has worn out, I still can rub off the adhesive.)

When I use it for stacking material, like a couple of ribs, I only put some to the front, middle and end. When you glue the entire surface you will have trouble getting the parts separated.

It's handy for temporarily fittings too and I'm sure I will come up with more applications in the future...

The product is gudy® 870 and the manufacturer is NESCHEN: www.neschen.com

It's sold worldwide. Do a Google search to find a supplier near you; perhaps you can order it on the web as well.

You don't need to cut out the drawing precisely either. First stick the gudy® to the backside of the copy, then quickly cut out the drawn part with some paper left around, pull off the backing paper and stick it to the wood. You can saw/cut/sand the paper along with the wood. This is no precision job, takes a few seconds only and you're ready to saw/cut/sand the part(s).

It works great when you saw or sand by hand. I think it will be fine when you use an electrical saw, but I don't know what gudy® will do when you sand electrical. Perhaps it will melt or come loose because of friction heat, perhaps it's no problem. Do a little test first.

I have different sanding blocks (regular size, thin, long, large area, whatever) for different purposes. I make them by sticking sanding paper to whatever piece of wood would be handy for the job, with gudy® 870. This is a thin film of adhesive on paper backing, a roll of 12 inches wide and 10 feet long. I bought at a store for art material. It's used to glue artwork and photographs to cardboard or whatever. Great stuff to use for lots of things... http://www.rcscalebuilder.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=997& amp; amp; amp;PN=2

It’s 'heavy duty' enough for sanding and doesn't harden. After weeks, when the sanding paper has worn out, you still can rub off the adhesive easily. It’s from www.neschen.com and it's sold worldwide. Do a Google search to find a supplier near you; perhaps you can order it on the web as well: www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&q=neschen+gudy+870

Gudy 870 and sanding blocks