Thoughts on this Woodworking Tool

[Coppertop]

Inor and anyone else that is a woodworker,

I am thinking of getting one of these for some of my projects. It would be more for doing refinish jobs and sanding router profiles.

What are your thoughts ??

http://www.arbortechusa.com/view/woodworking/contour-random-sander/query/main/contour-random-sander#tab1

Thanks

[OSFG]

This is not the sort of tool I have a use for based on the type of wood working I do now. I have a dremel that gets to my tight spots and has a great many other uses without being as big as this unit is. But if you do tight sculpted type sanding I could see its usefulness.

[Inor]

I do not have any experience with anything like the tool you linked. But... About 6-7 years ago I bought one of these:

http://powertool.manualsonline.com/manuals/mfg/portercable/insulated_profile_sander_models_444_444vs.html

I absolutely hate the damn thing worse than the devil hates holy water! The couple times I used it on projects, the sandpaper slid off the profile and proceeded to burn rubber into the wood. (And that was using the sandpaper they gave me with the freakin thing.)

The only dependable way that I have found to do a decent job doing detailed sanding is to do it by hand or to use a scraper.

Sorry

-I-

[pheniox17]

This is not the sort of tool I have a use for based on the type of wood working I do now. I have a dremel that gets to my tight spots

The dremel is one of the most versatile small tools I have ever used, choice little unit for small electronics repair, invention projects, small scale wood and metal work, basically a tool if you have never used, you will never think to need one, but once you have you can't live without it

To the grinder attachment, it seems very clumsy for woodwork... My 2 cents anyway

[omegabrock]

great, now i want a dremel

[Coppertop]

I do not have any experience with anything like the tool you linked. But... About 6-7 years ago I bought one of these:

http://powertool.manualsonline.com/manuals/mfg/portercable/insulated_profile_sander_models_444_444vs.html

I absolutely hate the damn thing worse than the devil hates holy water! The couple times I used it on projects, the sandpaper slid off the profile and proceeded to burn rubber into the wood. (And that was using the sandpaper they gave me with the freakin thing.)

The only dependable way that I have found to do a decent job doing detailed sanding is to do it by hand or to use a scraper.

Sorry

-I-

I have one of the DAMN things too- have had my eye out for something better and ran across this. I kinda wondered about the size of it myself.

Thanks

[Infidel]

I bought one of the Black & Decker mouse sanders when they first came out thinking it would be great for tight spots. It sucked, hand sanding is faster than using the mouse (very similar to Inor's sander). A dremel on the other hand is worth it's weight in gold, I use mine all the time making knives, I've also used the chainsaw sharpening attachment when I need it done quick. Chainsaw attachment works pretty well but you'll grind a chain down pretty quick with it if you don't pay attention to what you're doing. I also like the cutting disk attachment for cutting thin steel, works great but thicker steel eats the disks up in a hurry.

-Infidel

[1moretoy]

The Dremel Multi Max is my main tool of choice. I have used it for lots of different applications and it always works flawlessly. Many attachments for it too.
http://www.dremel.com/en-us/tools/Pages/CategoryProducts.aspx?catid=2094