I should use my planes more often
Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA
>I just finished finishing about 20 some parts that go inside a wine cabinet (bottle holders, glass holders and such). Took me about 2 hours with a random orbit sanders (electrons - bad, I know). I need to clean up the edges too, so i tried using a drum sander on the drill press, but it just wasn't working too well. So, I figured why not set my little block plane for a thin shaving and clean up the edges. Sure enough, about 2 passes on each side the end edges were good as gold. Only took about 10 minutes to do all the boards, and it probably would have taken an hour or more with a powered sander. Now I wish I would have just sharpened up and used my smoother on the board faces. Probably would have been faster too, no annoying dust, and I wouldn't have that wonderful "vibration hand" from using a powered sander. Next time I'll be smarter.