33b sanding mop in action

Well, I've just finished milling up a bunch of trim for a project I'm working on, and

even though I'm really pleased with the way the profile has turned out, there's one little

refinement that's going to make this trim just perfect, and I'm going to apply that

detail over on the drill press. Let's go and take a look

The problem with this profile is that the corners are too sharp, and if you look closely

you can also see that there's some fuzzy wood fibers, and both of those things together

the sharp edges and the fuzzy wood fibers, are going to make for a bad finish and a less

than ideal trim profile. But that's where this sanding mop comes in

I'm going to switch this on, and it's going to smooth the profile, it's going to reduce

these fuzzy fibers, eliminate them completely in fact, without making the profile rounded

over and uncrisp. So let's take a close look, and I'll show you it in action

So I just switch on, and I hold the profile gently against the spinning abrasive

Not too hard. I don't know if you can see it, but all those little loose fibers are flying off

Give it a second pass. Now you'd think with a treatment like this, that it would really round over the profile

But as you can see, it doesn't. The edges are still every bit as crisp as you want

They're not quite as sharp as they were before, but all the fuzzy fibers are gone

The surfaces of the profile have been sanded a little bit, so they're going to absorb stain

nice and evenly, just like the face of the board. And we've got, what's pretty well, a perfect profile