help sanding ,to sand or not to sand

The best trick I know of for sanding profiles is to use bondo to make a custom sanding block.

Take a scrap piece with your profile cut in it, and lay saran wrap over it. Take some Bondo and pour it over, basically making an imprint of the profile. Then after it hardens, you can use it as a sanding block and be able to keep your profiles crisp.

Or it it is just end grain you are worried about, you can try sealing the end grain with a thinned coat of shellac.

-- Lee - Phoenix, AZ

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Hey Donny,
I use a piece of sand paper, single fold over a 3/4×3/4 piece of wood for the square areas and wrap single fold around my carpenters pencil for the cove areas, that end cut is the hardest to sand and get smooth but I found it is best to do it by hand, and I hate to sand by hand.

-- Dave Hamm, http://www.hammswoodworks.com