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An old American Oak table sanded back and covered in Cabot's Benchtop Timber Finish.
The project
We restored an old American Oak table. It has been sanded back to bare wood. I wanted to keep it a light colour - not the darker stain which it was before. The leaf in the middle is a different grain - maybe a different cut of the Oak.
Here is the sanded Oak table.
We put the Cabot's Benchtop Timber Finish on the underside of the leaf and it dried white. We did stir it initially. It looked milky/white when we opened it and after the stirring.
The table is finished despite the humid weather. I'm pleased with the look of the table surface. The table pedestal and chairs are the darker colour. I'm OK with that. We have decided it would be a professional job to sand them back to the original Oak colour.
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