He whittled them with his knife, he rubbed them with sandpaper and with the palm of his hand, until when Laura touched them they felt soft61 and smooth as silk.
" Sandpaper" is a piece of paper that has small, hard objects on it, and if you rub it back and forth over a piece of wood, the wood will become smooth.
And I feel like those going to get-- kind of get sandpapered away the more people that are involved in making those kind of decisions, because you have to-- you have to-- when I was younger, I had a writing partner.