I hate sanding.
Reason being..
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My least favorite task as well. That's one reason a cabinet scraper is one of my favorite tools. It can give wood a smoother finish than most sandpaper and requires less repetitious effort. I still do a lot of sanding but often the finish from the scraper with linseed oil finish is perfect.
Yeah Wayfinder, I sometimes find myself with palm sander in hand thinking "I really should be using the scraper." One of my books says the old timers would use a piece of broken glass for a really smooth finish. Might have to give that a try!
The round neck is fine, it's all the other fiddly bits that annoy me, like the heel and headstock areas.
Yeah sanding can be a B***h, but I build to relax, so its a part of my building ritual. If I'm making something else, its a bother, but I kinda enjoy spending hours going from a 60 grit down to a 0000 grit steel wool to get a nice smooth finish on a neck. It really brings out the grain, which looks really nice when using a light finish or a wax finish on straight wood.
Barring that, have you considered perhaps a Tom Sawyer approach? Trick people into paying you to do the sanding? Just saying.....
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