I am the first person in the world to make a TIMBER vacuum cleaner nozzle!

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Yes you - the eternally damned; ever since your great (x a million) grand nutter got into eating apples at the dawn of the universe 5000 years ago - thus being cursed to do housework after THAT particular deity invented housework.. by inventing dust to clean up.

Well my vacuum cleaner's nozzle got trodden on a few times, and cracked, and those cracks grew until the thing came apart into 2 pieces......

Since I live in the middle of nowhere and I had some timber opportunities and resources on hand - I decided to make a NEW vacuum cleaner nozzle from timber.

This is more a work of opportunism and things on hand - all lining up; kind of like gravity and a high cliff.

I shall use some abbreviations from now on: VC = Vacuum Cleaner.

The main one being that the drill bit gave a very accurate hole in the wood, that was to fit over the end of the VC's aluminum wand.

It's a functional connection - if the wand had a coat of paint on it - it would be too tight to fit in the timber hole....

This is a pretty safe kind of a job., being that MOST of the work is done with VERY sharp hand tools, and a couple of power tools.

The only difference between the hand and power tools, is that if you get it wrong with the power saw, you can get it really wrong, really quickly and it can be anywhere from nasty to fatal - usually from blood loss - but not always.

And the hand tools... if you do what it takes to keep yourself hole and slice free - then you will; and if you don't - you will also.

Also with blade edge care - IF you need to use a chisel around a steel vice, it's a good idea to make up some WIDE across the top, soft jaws.

The start of it all - the POX plastic nozzle that got stepped on, cracked and eventually broke more or less into 2 pieces - lead of course by the finished product - the Worlds First Ever Wooden Vacuum Cleaner Nozzle.

Step 1 The Timber and Tools

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RE: Timber Tools.

I LOVE using hand tools.... I also love using very, very sharp, well looked after hand tools.

I also see - from experience that QUALITY counts above all things - and it's the quality used in all steps - from the very beginning, that makes the end result so splendid.

Since I am always in the process of upgrading and some of the learning experiences actually point to the need to upgrade I shall show these opportunities as well.

OK the NUMBER one requirement is for all the timber to be FLAT, SQUARE and LEVEL; all the cuts and drilled holes need to be STRAIGHT, SQUARE and PERPENDICULAR.

ALL of the little inaccuracies and omissions, all work together to make extra problems and extra work down the track.

The timber had been aquired from a friends yard... and it had bowed or cupped across the width of the plank.

-Which affected the accuracy of the drilled holes, the "flattening" of the faces for gluing and the overall alignment.

I am quite happy with the result and I am very sure that the carpet doesn't care much either.

The nozzle was made from kind of scrap timber and hand tools.... tho really there is no such thing as scrap - as you can even make great things with saw dust.

OK here is the timber and the tools used - the power saw wasn't included... but