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Unpopular opinion: hand sanding a 1930s door frame for 2 days beats any power tool I own
I had a paint matching job in Providence where the client wanted a 90 year old trim color recreated, and every sander I tried kept burning the edges of the old growth fir. I switched to 220 grit wrapped around a cork block and just went slow, feathering each layer by feel, and the color finally matched because I wasn't heating the wood and shifting the tone. Does anyone else find that the slow hand method gives a truer match on old trim, or am I just wasting my time?
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robert2757h ago
Sounds like you spent two days doing what a variable speed sander on low would have handled in an hour. Heat shifting the tone is real, but you can control that with slower speeds and lighter passes instead of going full caveman with a cork block. If the job paid for the extra time and the client was happy, fine, but calling it better than every power tool you own seems like a stretch.
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