Abstract: This disclosure teaches an accessory that can be used to hold steel wool for powered use thereof driven by a power tool. The disclosed accessory utilizes a mat formed of the hook section of the hook and loop fastener, such as is marketed under the Velcro or Scotchmate tradenames. It has been found that steel wool can be releaseably held fast against and to the hooked mat. The accessory is sized and shaped so as to allow it to be secured onto the output element of a conventional power tool, such as onto the platen of a vibrating sander. This thereby allows the power tool to be used for powered steel wooling, thereby increasing the usefulness of the tool while reducing the drudgery of steel wooling. Other looped or woven forms of abrading material, such as polishing rags, can be releaseably adhered to the hooked mat for powered buffing with the powered sander.