Motorized Dish Sander

by Mike Doolin

Originally published in American Lutherie #74, 2003 and Big Red Book of American Lutherie Volume Seven, 2015



Here’s a motorized dish sander for truing up the edges of sides after gluing in the lining. It’s a 2´-diameter MDF disk that’s radiused to 15´ on one side and flat on the other, with 80-grit sandpaper on both sides.