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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

DSPIAE  |  CFB-S01
Irregular Carbon Fibre Sanding Sticks
Three shaped ends, 1 mm thin — for the places nothing else will go.
⚠️ Sandpaper is not included — and it isn't pre-cut either
Because the ends are irregular, no ready-made paper exists to fit them. You lay a stick on a sheet of self-adhesive sandpaper, draw round it, cut along the line and stick it on. It takes a minute per stick per grit. That is the trade-off for having a shape nothing else can reach — and it means you want sheet sandpaper, not the pre-cut pads made for flat boards.
📌 The problem isn't sanding. It's reaching.

Every build has one. A seam running down into a channel two millimetres wide. A mould line at the base of a raised detail you cannot get a board alongside. The inside of a recess, a socket, the gap between two closely-spaced fins.

You know exactly how to sand it. You simply cannot get anything in there — so you end up picking at it with a folded scrap of wet-and-dry, which is slow, inconsistent, and usually rounds off something adjacent that you wanted left alone.

This set exists for those spots and nothing else.

📏 One millimetre thick — and still rigid

These sticks are 1 mm thick. For comparison, a typical acrylic sanding pad is 2.5 mm and a carbon fibre board is 2 mm. That difference is not cosmetic — it is the difference between a tool that fits into a gap and one that sits on top of it.

But thin only helps if it stays flat. A 1 mm strip of plastic or acrylic would bend under finger pressure and simply follow whatever shape you pressed it against, which achieves nothing except moving material around. Carbon fibre composite is stiff for its thickness in a way that no plastic is.

DSPIAE also infiltrate the carbon with epoxy, which does two things: it resists stretching and bending across the tool's whole working life, and it leaves the cut edges smooth rather than leaving exposed fibre that would be unpleasant to hold and could scratch the part.

🛠️ Three sticks, three different ends

All three sticks share the same 10 × 75 mm body. What changes is the profile of the working end — each is cut to a different irregular shape, so between them they present a range of edges, points and curves to work into different geometry.

The set contains CFB-01, CFB-02 and CFB-03, one of each. They form the first of three sets in DSPIAE's irregular range, which runs from CFB-01 through CFB-09 — so if a shape you need is not here, it very likely exists in one of the others.

📦 What's in the box
✔ 1 × CFB-01 carbon fibre sanding stick
✔ 1 × CFB-02 carbon fibre sanding stick
✔ 1 × CFB-03 carbon fibre sanding stick
✔ Grit identification sticker
✘ No sandpaper — sold separately, and cut to shape by you
📋 Fitting the sandpaper
1. Choose self-adhesive sandpaper in the grit you want.
2. Lay the stick on it and draw round the outline.
3. Cut along the line.
4. Peel the backing off and place it carefully on the stick.
5. Press it down flat — no bubbles, no wrinkles, particularly around the shaped end.

Worth doing properly. A wrinkle at the tip is exactly where the tool does its work, and it will leave a mark rather than remove one. The grit sticker supplied goes on the stick so you know afterwards what is on it — useful once you have several in different grits and they all look alike.

📑 Specifications
BrandDSPIAE
ModelCFB-S01
TypeIrregular carbon fibre sanding sticks
ContentsCFB-01, CFB-02, CFB-03 — one of each
MaterialCarbon fibre, epoxy infiltrated
Thickness1 mm
Width × length10 × 75 mm, ends vary
EdgesEpoxy sealed, smooth
SandpaperNot included
💡 Getting the best from them
Cut several at once. Trace and cut paper for all three sticks in one sitting, in the two or three grits you actually use. Doing it one at a time as you need it is what makes people leave tools like this in a drawer.
Keep the stick flat to the surface. The rigidity is what gives you a clean result. Tipping it onto a corner of the tip puts a groove where you wanted a flat.
Use the shape that fits, not the one nearest to hand. The whole point of three profiles is that one of them matches the geometry in front of you. Test-fit before you start sanding.
Label them. Once all three have paper on, they look identical from the handle end. The supplied grit sticker exists for exactly this reason.
Wet sanding is fine. Epoxy-infiltrated carbon fibre will not swell, warp or delaminate the way a wood or card-cored stick does.
⚖️ Honest limitations
You cut your own sandpaper, every time. No pre-cut paper exists for irregular shapes and it is not going to. Budget a minute per stick per grit.
10 mm is narrow. These are precision access tools. On an open panel they will take all evening — a flat board does that job far faster.
Three specific shapes. If none of them matches the geometry you are fighting, sets 2 and 3 in the range carry six further profiles.
Pre-cut pads will not fit. The die-cut self-adhesive pads made for flat sanding boards are the wrong shape entirely. Buy sheet sandpaper for these.
🚚 Dispatch & delivery
✅ Same-day dispatch on orders placed before 3 PM, Monday to Friday
✅ Sent by Royal Mail 24 Tracked from our unit in Derby — full tracking from our door to yours, no import charges and no customs delays
✅ Packed properly. Tools travel in protective packaging, not a bare envelope
✅ Not sure whether one of these shapes will reach the spot you are stuck on? Message us and describe it — we build models ourselves and we will give you a straight answer
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Specifications

  • Brand Dspiae
  • Type Sanding Stick Set
  • Number of Pieces 3
  • Grit 200
  • MPN PT-SP02
  • Suitable For Scale Models, Gunpla, Miniatures, Airbrushing, Acrylic/Lacquer/En
  • Country of Origin China
  • Colour Red / Black

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