Sanding balsa is a necessary but unpleasant chore. The results are worth the effort but it's still usually tedious and messy. Well, I can't help you with the tedious part but I can show you how to minimise the mess. (Especially important to those of us whose workshops are in Her realm!) The answer is to build a 'sandbox', that's how. I built my sandbox many years (and several workshops!) ago, primarily as a platform for vacuum forming canopies and the like. Shortly after fabricating it I found it also very useful for reducing the amount of balsa dust produced when sanding. So that became its primary function. After a few years (and more workshops), I mounted the sandbox to a scrap of shelf board and some DIY store drawer slides so it would be out of the way when not needed but easily available when wanted.
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