Your favorite sanding sponge or profile sanding technique?
#11
I need a better method to sand round overs on plywood than with folded-over paper.

I'm thinking sanding sponges. If so, which one?

If not, then what?
Semper fi,
Brad

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(02-02-2021, 07:41 PM)®smpr_fi_mac® Wrote: I need a better method to sand round overs on plywood than with folded-over paper.

I'm thinking sanding sponges.  If so, which one?

If not, then what?

Flap sander or mop sander. 
I put one in my drill press, run it at 1800 or so and it cleans up parts rapidly.
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#13
Lee Valley makes rubber profiles that you wrap sandpaper around. Very good assortment, use mine on almost every project.

Ed
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(02-02-2021, 07:41 PM)®smpr_fi_mac® Wrote: I need a better method to sand round overs on plywood than with folded-over paper.

I'm thinking sanding sponges.  If so, which one?

If not, then what?

Oldest answer is a reverse profile to hold your cloth-backed paper.  As indicated, such are available as commercial products, or from your router and pine scraps. 

Sponges and mops are best for three-dimensional works like carvings and complex moldings, though I generally just burnish the latter with its own variety of shaving.
Better to follow the leader than the pack. Less to step in.
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#15
On simple radii I still use sandpaper but put a piece of foam behind it to help it follow the contour smoothly.  On complex profiles I use abrasive foam pads.  Flap sanders would be a good approach if you have to do a lot of linear feet.  I have a shaft drive flap sander for doing moldings up to 8" wide.  I think I've used it twice.  I just haven't made as much molding as I thought I would when I bought it.  Anyone need a W&H molder with about $3K worth of knives and a flap sander?  

John
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#16
Harbor Freight sanding sponges. Made in Korea. Pack of ten for a few bucks.
Fine, medium, and coarse.
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#17
Thanks, folks! I'll check these out.
Semper fi,
Brad

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#18
For cove profiles for example, I'll take a small piece of the 2" rigid insulation board you can get at the box stores, adhere a piece of sandpaper to the profile of the workpiece itself, run the insulation board back and forth on it till I form the form the profile on that insulation board.  Boom, you now have an exact replica sanding block.  Adhere a piece of sandpaper to your newly created sanding block and there you go!  Only takes a minute or two.
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(02-02-2021, 10:02 PM)EdL Wrote: Lee Valley makes rubber profiles that you wrap sandpaper around. Very good assortment, use mine on almost every project.

Ed

Plus #1 on the profiles, there are multuple companies that sell them cheap. They will last forever.
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(02-03-2021, 04:43 PM)KLaz Wrote: For cove profiles for example, I'll take a small piece of the 2" rigid insulation board you can get at the box stores, adhere a piece of sandpaper to the profile of the workpiece itself, run the insulation board back and forth on it till I form the form the profile on that insulation board.  Boom, you now have an exact replica sanding block.  Adhere a piece of sandpaper to your newly created sanding block and there you go!  Only takes a minute or two.

That's brilliant.  
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