Shoutout to the $60 Festool sanding block that saved my forearms

I dropped $60 on the Festool HSK 80 sanding block six months ago after fighting with a cheap rubber block on a 40-door kitchen job in Nashville. That thing eats through finish sanding on face frames way faster than anything I've used before. Has anyone else found a sanding accessory that actually cut their time down?

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jana_scott23d ago

Big time. It's funny how we'll drop serious money on a table saw or track saw without blinking, but then cheap out on sanding blocks and end up with sore hands and slower work. Same pattern happens with measuring tools too. People buy a cheap tape measure that bends and falls apart, then wonder why their cuts are off by a sixteenth. Sometimes the little things that connect your hands to the work are exactly where you need to spend your money.

finley_price2423d ago

Wait, a sixteenth? @jana_scott that's wild, like I didn't realize cheap tape measures could throw you off that much just from bending. I guess when you're used to a certain one you just don't think about it.

brooke76723d ago

Hang on, a sixteenth is a pretty big difference. I'd be pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my joints weren't lining up and it was just the tape measure the whole time.