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I was wondering what sanders you guys found the most valuable for guitar building. Other than drum sanders do you use any other floor type sander, edge sander, oscilating sander, etc. If so what brand and type do you use. Or is the old hand sander and elbow grease that gets the job done.

Thanks,
Greg

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Gwaltney Guitars

Hand held pneumatic drum is my absolute favorite sander

I think I have a link. let me look but mine is not the Grizly but very simular

www.sand-rite.com/touchup.html

Random orbitol Sander is very useful

I also have a bench mounted Disc and Belt Sander which I have only had a while but find very useful.

Lots of sanders

12" disc (Grizz)
46" belt (wood tech)
Oscilating spindle (Ryobi)
Drum/thickness 16/32 (Ryobi)
handheld pneumatic 1 1/2" (Grizz)
RO (Dewalt)
RO (PC)
various sized palm sanders
Motorized 24" dish with 24 ft & 15 ft radius for profiling sides. (homemade)
Favorite sander is a 2 1/2"x4" piece of hard foam rubber, just slightly flexible that I worry I'll loose one of these days.
Oh and I'm building a low speed (200-300 rpm) horizontal disc (8" dia plate glass) sander to be used as a motorized "Scary Sharp" system for my chisels and other assorted blades.

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

I just got a flyer from Sand Rite- they've got a luthiers special on the hand
held pneumatic drum. 10% off. I guess they've been listening... Great
company too.
My other favorite finishing sander is the Nitto LS-10. It's a little straight line
sander. Very light and controlable and no swirl marks. Expensive, but a
premium quality tool.

-C

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Freeborn Guitars
and home of BeauGuard©

Disc sander
This little guy is expensive but very nice with it's low and adjustable rpm.   Eliminates burning while sanding small parts such as nuts.
Nelson

   Wow Nelson, that's a nice one!
   I use a 5 inch random orbital that I like a lot. I also have a bench mounted belt sander with the 6 inch disk on there. Very useful.
   I often reach for my trusty Lee Valley sanding block, though. Tough to beat old school quality.
   My next will probably be an edge sander and hopefully a dual drum thickness sander....

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

I use a Rigid oscillating belt/drum sander, a performax 10-20 thickness sander, a Porter cable hand held belt sander, a Porter cable DA sander, a Jet 6x48 belt sander, and 100,000 self made sanding blocks for hand sanding.

Al

Home made drum sander here!

I use 4 sanders that are indispensible.

1. DeWalt ROS
2. Bench Linisher/disc sander combo

And two in the drill press,

3. Large bobbin sander 6" x3"
4. 5" disc sander (used for thicknessing) after the SafeT planer.

I recently sold my 16-32 as it wasn't being used.

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

Michael, how much CFM do these type sanders require? I only have a small pancake compressor and it's not worth my going to a huge one just for one or two tools...but I've daydreamed about a "rolling pin" sander for some time...

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Larry my air tool is a C&H die grinder I believe at max it uses 5cmf at 90 psi but I don't run it full often and never on the sanding drum. I run the tool at 60 psi and turn down the rpms adjustment on my grinder about half way. I don't hog material with it. In fact I use it with a pretty light touch. You can use this drum with a cordless drill if you wanted.

I am sure with a pancake you would be short intermitting use only depending on the rotary air tool you use.MichaelP38765.4696527778