Got this table off of CL knowing it needed to be refinished. My wife and I proceeded to strip the table using Citristrip to get to bare wood on the table top. Since the legs are round I opted to just sand those. Since I had read that maple is a notoriously blotchy wood to stain and we wanted to color match the chairs that came w the table (even though we intend on replacing them) we used a pre stain wood conditioner to ensure we get as even a coat as possible when staining. About an hour after the prestain went on we started staining. We used a product called "Ipswich Pine" wipe on stain by Minwax. We put 4 coats of the stain and let it dry for about 24 hours. After stain it was finally time for polyurethane. I removed the apron and legs unit from the table top for this process to try and get a more even coat applied. My wife and I collaborated on this part of the project and applied 2 coats of poly with a light sanding between coats. We are really happy w the results and got a cool table for pretty cheap. We also enjoyed the process and learned a lot which should come in handy in the future. Sorry we didn't take pictures of the entire process. Here's the ones we did take though.
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Submitted March 29, 2015 at 11:25PM by Jcon74 http://ift.tt/1G5Dawm
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