Project — "Solid Mahogany Vanity Top" Page 4

Marieanne is back and picking up where she left off with the vanity top project. Last time she finished the glue up. This time, she removes the boards from the clamps and starts to sand the top smooth. She us using the Festool Rotex 125 and starts with 50 grit sandpaper. It only takes a brief minute at this coarse grade, and she can switch to 80, 120 and 150 grits.
	She finds the Rotex to be so very smooth and easy to use. It is also nice to not have any dust circulating in the air. The Rotex delivers all of its dust to the dust extraction unit — what we call the vacuum.
With the board smoothed, Marieanne uses chalk to outline the template on the mahogany.
	On closer inspection, she sees a small split in the board. She can patch it with epoxy and probably it will never bother anything, but she decides to look elsewhere on the glue-up.
She has turned the board over and rotated it to get to the best grain. The weak spot will be trimmed away.
	Back to sanding.
She uses a fine marker to outline the sink hole. The sink is an under mount unit so this cutout will be seen. There is little room for error.
	This is an important step. We want to "fold over" about 1 1/2" of the front. We will glue this strip onto the underside so that the edge will look like a 1 1/2" thick edge.
She selects a new, fine tooth wood cutting blade for the jigsaw.
	She uses a 3/4" spade bit to drill a starter hole in the sink area. Note, you can start to see how nice this mahogany piece will be.