The other way to sand the insides of the monkey grip is to take a piece of the sand paper and roll it up so you can poke it through the gap in the wood.
Yeah Doc, I started that way but its kind of hard to get consistent contact, thats why I made up the sanding cauls, they're just various bits of different gauge dowel I had lying around. They did the trick.
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