This inexpensive drum sander can be made by slipping a foam-rubber bicycle grip over a 5/8-in. dowel. The grip will stay nicely in place without adhesive. Notch and center-punch the dowel so it will run between centers on your lathe. Form sandpaper into a cylinder, scrape the abrasive off the bottom edge of the seam and hot-glue the sandpaper around the foam-rubber. The sander has just enough give not to sand flat spots on curved surfaces but is firm enough to make smoothing fast and easy. I use a vacuum and homemade sawdust collector to pick up the dust.

Gene Austin, Blue Bell, Pa.

Fine Woodworking Magazine, October 1985 No. 54

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