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   Sphere | Dec 20, 2003 12:04am | #1

   Sanding blocks to match the radius and scrapers.

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   Steinmetz | Dec 20, 2003 12:05am | #2

   Freddy, make a scraper to fit and scrape away.

   Or,turn a sanding block on the lathe from two pieces of wood glued together with a sheet of paper in the center.

    When turned to fit cove's arc, remove 1/64 th more for the thickness of sand paper (Medium). When glue is dry, split along paper line and the block will separate to make two semi circular blox. Glue medium paper to one and fine grit to the other.  Work's for me. Stein

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   artw | Dec 20, 2003 06:43am | #3

   Use 60 grit sandpaper till all the notches are gone, then work down the ladder to finer grits. 

   Ken K

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   patternmaker | Dec 20, 2003 08:06pm | #4

   I have found that a very light final cut combined with a slow steady feed,will greatly reduce the labor required for cleanup. For the sanding, I use a flexible sanding pad in a drill motor.

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   mike4244 | Dec 20, 2003 08:21pm | #5

   Freddie, take a scrap piece of cove and scrape or sand til smooth. Wax the scrap, make a simple form around it and pour plater of paris in the form. Add a piece of softwood with a few screws on the underside to grip the plaster . When dry, staple a piece of sandpaper to the wood on one side, pull sandpaper around form and staple other side. Now you have a custom hand sander. Don't bang it around or the plaster may crack.

   mike

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   Bonka | Dec 21, 2003 06:08am | #6

   I used one of those roundish scrapers you see in the catalogs.  I sharpened it  and then moved it around in the cove until the shapes matched a pulled it toward me and the saw mark came out a lot faster than sanding.  I had done this before and it seem to have taken forever with the sandpaper.