Seeing I did not go into detail about the sanding here is what I done.
First I used 50 grit paper on the belt sander to shaped the grip area and round off the back.
Then there where a couple of places where I had to use a rasp to round off, right down near the shelf.
Then I went to 80 grit paper to get out the deep scratch marks, then onto100 grit,150 grit, 220 grit, with all the scratch markes gone and to get the wood to have that smooth as silk feel I wet the riser to stand the grain up and used 320 grit. After I sealed the wood I again sanded it back with 320 grit paper, all in all there was about 12 hours of sanding all by hand on the riser.
