Linear sander

[Per Swenson]

Hello All,
I thought I would share about a rarely
mentioned Festool product.
The LS linear sander and my favorite
attachment, "the make your own sanding pad"
I am better at wise remarks then tool descriptions, but I'll give it a shot.
This sander goes back and forth. Gee that was easy.
Now about the sanding pad.
If Gramps had his way, we would be scraping with curved scrapers,
and hand sanding, with band sawed blocks of maple with sandpaper glued
to them.
In the interest of my other pursuits, you know, butterfly gathering
and stamp collecting, we do it this way.
I have a collection of these blocks for all of our large moldings too.
So, what you do is take the self stick Velcro put it on the profile,
attach 80 grit paper and sand away. Then switch to 150 to smooth the block. Glue the other piece of Velcro to the block, drill holes for the dust collection and voila. The results on the end grain are wonderful.
I have 32 raised panels that needed to be done. They are now
ready for shellac, Time spent, under a 1/2 hour.
I hope this helps some one.
Per

[John Hart]

That's pretty cool Per! A 1/2 hour??!!! Sheesh...I hate sanding and that sounds great. Hows the vibration? Sounds like it would be significant

[Frank Pellow]

I have the Festool linear sander and a "make your own sanding pad". The sander is great but I still have not made us of the pad. Per, thanks for the photos showing how you have put it to use

[Frank Pellow]

I have the Festool linear sander and a "make your own sanding pad". The sander is great but I still have not made us of the pad. Per, thanks for the photos showing how you have put it to use
Now, I have used it. See the thread: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=224244#post224244