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Old 11-19-2014, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by CHANCE1234 View Post
Is a narrow block sander narrow enough to get the curved parts up near the bow. I know my 5" Orbital sander is too wide to get the bow area evenly.
The 2 3/4" wide line sanders will get just about any where. I did the bow of mine and just worked it up and down horizontally and it got in 95% of the areas. Dura block makes a nice hand set that has 5 bocks in their kit different sizes that will get just about anywhere and in any contour.

A lot of the work can be done with air tools but there is no replacing a good hand block set when doing a final wet sand.
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