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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Actually, it would be grind. I just do it with a wheel chucked in my drill press, holding the bit in my hand. Make the shape you want and with a little bevel you have a cutting edge. The more symmetrical you make it, the smoother it cuts.
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The problem with this is that it forces you to cut the cup parallel to the body and through hole, when good poppers have the cup cut parallel to the face slope.
There are large round inflatable sanding bulbs with specially shaped sandpaper cups for shaping wooden spoons, but they are expensive and look like they'd clog up too fast.
Gibbs reportedly used a stack of some sort of narrow slitting saw blades of different diameters to form a large diameter curved molding blade, but if and where you can get those I've no idea.
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