Mr. David Reed Smith has posted a nice how-to-do on making a lathe powered disc sander. As with all of his articles, it is well thought out and easily built.

 

Read it at- http://davidreedsmith.com/Articles/DiscSander/DiscSander.html

Thank you Lew, I need one of these

 

OK, it turns out that this is not what I was looking for, I need a hand held sander for the lathe, I could probably make one though just off the top of my head.

Thinking it through and getting the parts,is another matter.

Edited April 21, 201610 yr by Charles Nicholls

Charles, I have a small, flexible disk sander that chucks in a drill motor. I use it for sculpted boxes.

Think that night work for you? 

Yes Gene, that is exactly what I am looking for, In my case, I would turn a handle for the disk to fit into so that while the lathe is on the sander would be using the power of the lathe to do the job

Eddie Castelin posted one such thing and I have not found that post again yet

 

Mine is 5" dia. for stick on disks. The shaft is 1/4" thick and 2 3/4" long. I don't remember where I bought it. Maybe Klingspor. 

If it's not going to be powered, does it need to be circular? 

2 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Mine is 5" dia. for stick on disks. The shaft is 1/4" thick and 2 3/4" long. I don't remember where I bought it. Maybe Klingspor. 

If it's not going to be powered, does it need to be circular? 

It should be, simply because the lathe itself will provide the power to turn it.

 

So, you gotta make a handle that allows the shaft to turn while preventing it from falling out, right?

No mean feat, that. I wanna see it when you get it done.

For trickier sanding jobs on some of the more weirder band saw boxes, I made a wooden coping saw frame that holds a 1 1/2" strip of cloth backed paper. Would something like that work for you?

50 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

So, you gotta make a handle that allows the shaft to turn while preventing it from falling out, right?

No mean feat, that. I wanna see it when you get it done.

For trickier sanding jobs on some of the more weirder band saw boxes, I made a wooden coping saw frame that holds a 1 1/2" strip of cloth backed paper. Would something like that work for you?

I'm not sure it would Gene, depending on how the frame works, and whether it would allow access to the inside of turned boxes or bowls. Basically yes it would be a sander on a stick. that you could remove from the stick if you wanted to. The one Eddie did had a round magnet (bearing type)embedded in the handle, I'm still looking for that video

Edited April 21, 201610 yr by Charles Nicholls

Here we go he had to remove the original so it was remade and reuploaded

 

Aha. That's just the ticket.

Cool video! Thanks Charles!

Yep no problem and you're welcome guys. My only problem would be drilling the 45 degree angled hole, I can get close enough though since my spindle on the lathe locks.

 

17 hours ago, lew said:

Cool video! Thanks Charles!

You bet Lew & Gene