The other day I was working on a stair railing-to-turnout connection (they never match), and I needed a sanding block. I looked around for a suitable block, and it was actually at my feet. There I found a 4-in. piece of scrap handrail, just waiting to have a piece of sandpaper wrapped around it. It fit perfectly in my hand. When I started fitting the handrail pieces together at the point where the rail curved upward at a landing, I used a scrap piece of the gooseneck for a block. It has just the right radius.
Richard Sena, Jamestown, NY
Edited and Illustrated by Charles Miller
From Fine Homebuilding #61
