Originally Posted By: Adrian
The secret to making drywall jobs easy, is to use a wide taping knife to feather the joint compound out and minimize the sanding. Most people make the mistake of using a small putty knife and create all kinds of bumps and crevices in the compound that need to be sanded out and reworked. You should have almost NO sanding if you use the right knife.


I'll second this, adding that the compound should be applied very lightly. Most first-timers throw on gobs of the stuff.