I have a suggestion to those who bought our patterns. When sanding the slices take a 1/4 inch dowel rod and place it in a small block of wood. when sanding use the dowel rod to hold the piece of wood that you are sanding.. makes it easier to hold and less sanding of the fingers, start drilling a 1/4 hole in all the handles of the products that you slice. Then you can use it as a place to hang the product up and put your hang tags on. Some already have the 1/4 inch whole in the pattern but not all.
I wish I had come up with this years ago.. would have saved my finger tips a lot of pain...