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I hate sanding.

Reason being..

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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on August 29, 2016 at 12:04am

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.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on August 31, 2016 at 4:47am

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!

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on August 31, 2016 at 11:10am

Burned my thumb yesterday sanding... Yes... Burned...

When making necks, my favorite sandpaper is a torn off piece of a belt sander belt, 120 grit. There was a bit of a gouge the spoke shave left, and I was trying to minimize it... So, add some pressure and some elbow grease... Didn't notice it getting hot until OUCH!

You really can't see it, but I have a first degree burn on the outer soft part of my thumb.

On the same neck, when I migrated to 150grit, I mistakenly had my index finger too close to the edge of the fretboard and cut myself...

Bottom line: sanding is dangerous work!

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 31, 2016 at 11:17am

See?
Sanding is bad.

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on August 31, 2016 at 11:39am

It is hard to sand a rounded neck with a block... And it was a pretty deep gouge... :-)

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 31, 2016 at 2:36pm

The round neck is fine, it's all the other fiddly bits that annoy me, like the heel and headstock areas.

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on September 1, 2016 at 12:21pm

That is why I love a piece of a sanding belt... It won't tear like sandpaper... Though I tend to sand with the grain in order to minimize my sanding...

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Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on September 3, 2016 at 3:30pm

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.....