My experience with an air powered sander like that one is the swirl is too big and ends up making a pattern in the wood I am sanding. That happens even with finer grit paper, all the way down to 400. There are air powered sanders out there that have a smaller swirl but they aren't the inexpensive ones, and even the high dollar ones you have to play with some to get the best finish. Those work great in the automotive application and I guess if you aren't too aggressive with them may work well for you on wood, maybe I'm too aggressive????:-? I've got a Hutchins sander that I used to do some body work with that does a fine job on metal, poor on wood, and a snap-on that does sora-ok on metal that does a bang up job for me on wood. Go figure.:eusa_thin But hey, for the price you can't go wrong.....have fun with it!!!!