I need help on the best way to clean wood blocks

[Mal]

I'm like a lot of you who are going with unmounting their stamps, and left with a lot of wood blocks. My question is: How is everyone cleaning their blocks from all the stickiness? I have tried a search but can't seem to find anything about this. Please help if you can. Thanks!

[hoptownracer1]

I'll have this project to do later myself. I was going to try using my Adhesive Remover Eraser on them. Not sure if you can use Goo Gone or not; seems like it would soak into the wood. Interested in seeing responses to this too. Great question!

[cbet]

The easiest way I found is to sand it off. Makes a mess, with fine dust all over the place, but it gets rid of the sticky and some of the stains.

[Mal]

Thanks. I will try the sanding.

[cbet]

I should have mentioned - sometimes I dust the blocks with a little baby powder. It seems to help keep the sticky from gumming up the sanding block.

Also, I use sanding blocks that I got way cheap at Harbour Freight - they feel like a kitchen sponge covered on all sides with sandpaper. They feel quite comfortable in my hand, and because of the sponge base, they'll kind of bend & squish if you need to get into the curvy part of the block.

[Mal]

Thanks for the info. Went to Home Depot and got some sand paper, now I'm off to sand some blocks.