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Prior to using the clamp/random orbital sanding technique, I had tried to fake having a drum sander at my drill press, seen in the background here. It 'sort of' worked, but the fake fence, made with some scrap wood, and clamps, wasn't the best solution, and not quite as clean as I'd hoped. It was also a rather small drum sander head for making straight lines. I've since bought a larger arbor, and drum sanding tubes, and cut a new sacrificial plate with a new adjustable hole cutter that fits it. In the process, though, I lifted up the sacrificial plate, which then spun around, burning a circular patch in my Woodpeckers drill press table's laminated top :(

 

Note in this pic that sanding the edges of the boards with my clamp/random orbital sanding method worked great. They sit flush on the table top.

Done