Reply by Dallas

Thanks everybody.

I’m learning a lot here. I use to use my electric and pneumatic sanders as much as possible, but lately I find that I have at least 10 boxes of different grades of sheet sand paper that I use to hand sand.

I even went to the extreme of exploring different methods of power sanding but I kept coming up a bit short in the finish I wanted.
Now I power sand as much as I can, but like others have said. hand sanding takes out all those other little defects you either get with using power tools or the ones that escaped your notice when using a power tool.

-- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome!