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Surface Prep Shootout
 





The Main Event

Watch the replays from our live video event shot Nov. 12. See how two FW staffers duked it out to find the fastest way to get a finish-ready surface: magazine editor Asa Christiana with power sanders against art director Michael Pekovich with handplanes. Click here to find out who won.

Thanks to Kari Hultman of the Village Carpenter blog for giving us live coverage via Twitter.

For more information, check out our round-up of surface prep links or post a comment about the event in the blogs.

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Asa Christiana
Asa Christiana is editor of Fine Woodworking. At his home in Thomaston, Conn. he has a garage shop so well stocked with power equipment, that when he steps inside and fires it up, lights dim in a 10-block radius around his home.

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 Asa vs. Mike Mike Pekovich
Michael Pekovich is Fine Woodworking's art director. A long-time woodworker, Mike caught the hand tool bug when he came to FW more than a decade ago. On weekends he's apt to be scouting at tag sales and flea markets for old tools.

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