Gary Fritz wrote in
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patriarch wrote:
Remember the patience part. Thanksgiving is still weeks away.

:-) But I'm sick of using the folding table!!

Well, I took it down to the wood, stained it, and as I said the stain
showed up a few corkscrews. But I said screw it, I am sick of spending
up-close & personal quality time with this table. I went ahead and put
on 4 coats of the Varathane DWF, hand-sanding lightly after the 1st and
3rd coats with 320.

The Varathane didn't make the grain pop NEARLY as much as the
Polycrylic. The wood was satiny-smooth after I stained it, and the
first coat came out fairly smooth.

The corkscrews are barely visible. I have to look hard to find them.
I doubt anybody else will ever see them.

18 hrs after the last coat, I can still dent it with my fingernail, but
it's already WAY harder than the Polycrylic. I'll let it cure for a
couple of days and hope it's hard enough for kid use by then.


It should cure a bit faster in the warm house, anyway.

I have a table that sits in our dining area, that my parents bought when
they bought a new home in 1955. The top has needed refinishing since about
1960. We keep a table cloth on it, and enjoy the best family dinners
around that table. I don't really know when I'll get around to building a
'fancy' one. Grandkids are too much fun.

Although I DID have a brief conversation with my daughter-in-law over the
wisdom of someone buying the kid a maple mallet and tool bench, and then
bringing same to my house. It left.

Collect memories.

Patriarch