Patent ID: 7775855

Claim:
A method of sanding with a hand-held, manually operated sanding tool, the method comprising: providing a sanding tool including: a base body having a lower surface, an upper surface, and a hollow interior therebetween, the base body further defining an aperture extending from the interior through the upper surface of the base body, a handle including a grip and a hollow post extending away from the grip, and a flexible coupling device extending from the interior of the base body through the aperture and through the interior of the post for biasly coupling with the post of the handle to connect the handle to the base body, wherein the handle and the coupling device are positioned in order to rotatably couple the handle to the base body such that the handle is rotatable about an axis defined by the post; wherein the post and the coupling device are each part of a mounting assembly configured to selectively lock the handle via the post relative to the base body at a plurality of rotational orientations relative to the base body; providing a replaceable sheet-like abrasive material; securing the sheet-like abrasive material to the sanding tool such that the sheet-like abrasive material extends across a bottom of the lower surface of the sanding tool; rotating the handle to a first desired rotational orientation relative to the base body; locking the handle relative to the base body in the first desired rotational orientation; grasping the grip within a user's hand; maneuvering the sheet-like abrasive material across a working surface by applying a force to the handle via the user's hand to sand the working surface; rotating the handle to a second desired rotational orientation differing from the first desired rotational orientation; and sanding the working surface with the handle in the second desired rotational orientation.