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Another option is a different brand of 'hoover'. I do have an old Festool extractor which I use with some tools - but I have an equally old Trend which does just as good a job. You can get a stepped rubber adaptor from Axi which means it will fit together Regards Mark

Finished tonight Carefully cut the leather to size, mixed up some stiff wallpaper paste and pasted it together before rolling it flat I am pleased with the final result - and I think Dad would have liked it too. Thanks to all the helpful comments. Stuartpaul I had a look at your pedestal table...

Have been away in Egypt for a week's holiday - interesting with a 1000+ room hotel in Hurghada running at 3% occupancy during half term week! Very quiet but good food Anyway thanks to those of you who commented about the beading etc - but I am afraid I was swayed by one of the original photos of...

Really good job - looks tremendous

So after putting it all together I am happy with what is done so far but am not certain I am happy with the overall appearance. I think maybe it needs another row of the triple beading at the bottom of the side as well? And the small vertical pieces look wrong to me - maybe they could be the...

Had a really good day today and solved my last remaining big problem... First I used my circular mounted router to rout out the circular area where the leather inlay will be Then after a good clean up with a sander followed by a card scraper it looked OK I had a look at what the leather would...

Getting close to completion with one major tricky job left to do. I am off work all week due to having a plate removed from my arm yesterday and having a steroid injection into a facet joint today - so I am taking it very slowly but tonight have no back pain for the first time in months - a...

I don't think you would regret buying them - they are awesome chisels and, provided you don;t use them for the wrong purpose :oops: will last a lifetime

I assembled the table top today First I marked both the hexagonal MDF and the 6 side pieces where the dominos would go - I planned 6 for each side and 1 between adjacent side pieces. The MDF is 18mm thick but the side pieces are 22.7mm thick. I wanted the side pieces to be 2.5 mm proud of the...

Another hour or so last night Unclamped the drawer and cleaned up the dovetails with a low angle plane Dry fitted it and it is quite a good fit. Once it is sanded / scraped / sealed / waxed it should be fine Then did a bit of wailing and self-flagellation as I snapped a japanese dovetail...

Thanks for your comments - I have some time this morning so may have another look at that and . Meanwhile in an hour last night I scarfed in a piece of matching grain to fill that screwhole I had shown a photo of and then finished the drawer - routed out a 1/4 inch groove in all 4 sides, joined...

Really good thread which has given me much to think about - thanks very much

I take your point Studders and TBH I agree with you entirely. The trouble is it definitely needed something as it is fast becomeing a very heavy table. Wood which was thick enough to be effective would be visible. I have chiselled them out so that they are flush with the surface and I think that...

Last night I made the front drawer and cut all the dovetails Those on the front curved edge I found a bit trickier than normal as I was cutting obliquely through different grain directions due to the curved, laminated front but it was Ok if one just took time and cut a little bit at a time Dry...

Some good progress over the weekend - starting to look like a table. I made some decisions - first I finished off the curved sides of the drum table and then decided not to have 2 drawers which I know is a bit of a copout but I was running out of mahogany for the drawers and also one drawer will...

I had an unanticipated extra day in the workshop today and made good progress. First some calculations and plans for the dimensions of the table top which needs to be quite accurate. The curved side pieces have 'splayed' very slightly after coming out of the press - but only enough to increase...

Yes I agree completely - You could laminate any old wood and then just have the top 3mm mahogany. To be honest, because of the sentimental value of this I am planning to use all the wood from this table so that it is still Dad's table but has just morphed into a slightly smaller one! As I am...

Actually it is not a burn mark but superglue as a tiny bit of mahogany got knocked off which I stuck back on. I have since scraped it all off and it looks fine Thanks Mark

Made some reasonable progress today... - it warmed up a bit and was almost reasonable in the shed for the first time in ages. At the moment I am thinking this table is going to have an inlaid leather top, 2 curved drawers, 3 curved tapered legs with fluting on the curved surfaces going into a...

OK finally worked out how to post images after so long away! I failed to take any photos of the table before dismantling it. Here are the legs - big and solid - over 4 inches diameter at the top The table top I have already cut into two. This half will eventually be the circular top of the new...