Bob Sirois 
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(3/13/01 1:19 pm)
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Drill for sanding & drier motor for the finish.
You will need a good variable speed drill and some means of clamping it to your workbench. They sell clamps for drills, however I made one cheap, which works fine. I bought 2 very large stainless hose type clamps, bolted them through the end of my worktable between two 2x4 blocks so the adjustment nut is on top. When I need to sand down my handles, I just pop the drill through the clamps and tighten them down until the drill is secure.
 
A cheap rod drying motor. I think mine cost me $20 bucks and I've been using it for years. You do need to buy one designed (low rpm) for this purpose. The price has gone up since I purchased my years ago, but they are still under $50 for the plain vanilla models. If you want to cut the price, some even hit their local grille center for a rotisserie motor. Even my means of securing the rod is low budget, a simple rubber table leg with a slit on one side to expand over varying size rod butts. That has a nut to secure it and plastic tubing that fits snuggly over that nut shaft and drier motor shaft. I push the rod butts into the rubber table leg and use electrical tape to secure it.
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