Sanding Mops - Which Mop for Which Purpose?

The Sanding Mop used to just be "The Sanding Mop" but over the years, it has evolved into several distinct versions of itself - The Regular Mop, The Fluffy Mop and The Double Mop.  Each Mop comes with different parts and is designed for a different purpose.  Each kit can be modified slightly, depending on what you would like to do.  I always like to tell people that it's like any new tool...you need to play with it a little bit to see how it will work best for you.

The Regular Mop

This mop tends to be a little more aggressive.  Stabilizers sit on the outside of the sheets, just like the bread on a sandwich.  They keep the sheets tight together allowing the edge of the mop to be more controlled and to make it slightly more aggressive.  This makes The Regular Mop perfect for routered edges.  The stabilizers can be removed in order to make it more flexible and a few spacers can be placed between the sheets for even more flexibility.  When assembled, The Regular mop is about 1" thick.

The Fluffy Mop

The Fluffy Mop comes with an extra long mandrel so that spacers can be placed between the sheets, causing the Mop to become "Fluffy".  A Fluffy Mop is most often used in 220 & 320g for deep profiles, assembled raised panel doors and in-between coat sanding.   When assembled, The Fluffy Mop is about 3-1/2" long.

The Double Mop

Essentially, The Double Mop is a Regular Mop that comes with double the amount sandpaper and a longer mandrel.  It's designed for larger pieces that require slightly more aggression.  When assembled, the Double Mop is approx. 3-1/2" long.





My personal  favourite style is a Regular Mop set-up without stabilizers.  I used one to prepare the old trim in our 130 year old farmhouse for painting.  It did a great job!  The Crazy Canadian Woodworker prefers his for "exfoliating".

What's your favourite style?

Save Money, Save Minutes, Sand Moulding

Like nearly every other one of our unique woodworking products, The Moulding Sander was born out of a need we found within the woodworking industry.
We had been selling the Sanding Mop for many years before the Moulding Sander came along.  Ultimately, from talking to real life woodworkers at woodshows and doing some of our own research we realized there was nothing AFFORDABLE available to sand trim & moulding, including crown moulding.  There were other products on the market, but they were priced ridiculously high for the average woodworker.  As is the nature of what we do, we decided it was time to change that.

If you are familiar with the Sanding Mops it’s easy to figure out the general concept of The Moulding Sander.  It’s a profile sander, designed to sand things that have profiles – in the case of the Moulding Sander the profile can be wider… up to 7” - 8”, so it’s perfect for sanding trim and moulding while still maintaining the detail of the piece.  The Moulding Sander replaces hand sanding twenty to one.

Like some of our other of our products, the Moulding Sander is a “Build-it-Yourself” kind of tool.  We provide the basics and you provide a motor, as well as some creativity to construct an incredibly useful tool in your shop.   The advantage of tools like this is that you can customize them to work specifically with the set-up and needs of your shop.

We regularly hear from people who are interested in sanding out out knife or chatter marks, but we like to remind them - the Moulding Sander is a profile sander, not a shaper.   The moulding sander may assist in removing some of those marks by passing trim through on an angle, but will likely not remove these marks completely.  The key is to have sharp tools making your trim look good in the first place.  We do not want to advertise this tools as something it is not.

The Moulding Sander has become a popular little tool, proving itself to be indispensable to many moulding and trim shops.  Just like The Sanding Mop, The Moulding Sander is great for in between coat sanding. If you find yourself staring at a shop full of moulding or trim it's time to get yourself one of these incredible time savers. Trust me, you'll thank yourself later!

Side Note:  US readers...You can call the Moulding Sander a Molding Sander if you'd like!
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