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Pear is a creamy colour so if it is pear it has been stained. It looks like cherry to me but as others have said, it could be almost anything, it is hard to tell from such a small sample.

Hi Luke. Your desk is a reproduction probably made in the 1980's or 90's. It will probably have been sprayed with a pre-cat lacquer and the skiver would have been sprayed with the same although some were hand finished with French polish. To take out the blooms on both the wood and leather you...

Hi Steve. After reading Nick's article I set about making one with my son. I bought the Handmade Music Factory book and used one of their projects using an old wine box. it was really easy and great fun. The guitar has a surprisingly good tone. Don't hesitate, get on with it, the only limitation...

Are you talking about Rustins plastic coating?

Hi Rodger, I don't know of a way to create that silvery finish but you can help it on its way by using a wash of soda crystals. It will give a greenish brown colour to the oak and then if left in sunlight will take about a year to silver as opposed to about three or four years without. If you...

Well here are the results. I melted some Harrells Khaki wax, divided it in two and mixed the Konig colours into it. The blue mixed very well, I just poured it in and stirred. The red started to curdle but I gave it a good stir and all seemed well so I allowed them to cool. When cold I slapped a...

This is interesting. I think you will struggle to find any beeswax in vibrant colours. You could try making some yourself. If you get a clear or light coloured wax and melt it on a low heat in a pan ( one that you will not be using again in the kitchen ) you can then add pigment to it, Turmeric...

Definitely Elm.

It can also help if you apply the oxalic with a scotch pad and scrub it into the grain at the same time holding a heat gun over it to keep it as hot as possible. Also to leave the oxalic on overnight. I realise this information may be too late for you but would you not be better delaying...

Liberon wood bleacher is oxalic acid and works well on most light stains but it seems to me that you need to go onto A+B bleach, there are some stains it will not budge but it gets most of them and I would expect it to take out bearer marks. Your only problem might be sourcing it around...

What type of bleach are you using? If it is domestic bleach, it will do very little. I would firstly use oxalic acid in a strong solution with as hot as you can get water. If that did not get rid of the marks I would use A+B ( hydrogen peroxide )

Looking again at it, it might be willow so you could make a cricket bat out of it!

Photo Mount is the best spray adhesive for sticking fabric as it gives a very fine application of the glue which will not bleed through the fabric. You could also use wallpaper adhesive ( my glue of choice for most fabric and leather ) but with a very fine fabric like satin or silk I think Photo...

Why not just use a dark brown/black grain filler and save yourself a lot of trouble? Jenkins in Tottenham do a very good grain filler in small tins.

+1 for Yew.

It may depend on what sort of varnish you have on this bed. Polyurethane varnish is not reversable but may restore with a reviver and crystal varnish is reversable and will restore with a reviver. If you apply some meths to an inconspicuous part and the varnish goes sticky then you have a spirit...

I have one of these brushes, I have been using it for about twenty years or so, it is okay, the curved sole is useful and it fits in the hand well, I use it mostly for buffing turnings and carvings. A much better brush is an old clothes brush, you will only find one in a charity shop or car boot...

I like both of those ideas, I could just cut it off and fix a standard extraction port to it. I have seen these rectangular ports on lots of Startrite machines but I have never seen one with a coupling on but they must exist.

The port is 63mm X 35mm external and 57mm X 29mm internal. Steve I dont know the size of the hose to the extractor as I have not picked it up yet but as a guess I would say about 120mm. Thanks for your suggestion Pete, that would certainly be easier than the one I had in mind but I would...