Thread: finish for coffe table.

can some one delete one of these two post,pressed to many buttons.
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Originally Posted by Leeok

Hey all,I'm in mid way through building a coffe table,and am looking for a good finish.
I want to use a oil or wax,the table's made out of silky oak and kerri pine.
any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks Lee

Hi Lee

I have used burnished Triton oil on silky oak and it comes up a treat.

Slop the oil on the surface and then using an orbital sander you burnish or sand the oil into the surface. It comes up really smooth and if someone damages the top with a hot coffee cup you can just grab the sander and oil and go again.

cheers

dazzler

does it come up as a gloss or matt finish?

Lee, I think you need something tougher. Try satin polyU or maybe minwax wipe-on poly.

Oil and wax offer no protection to wood. I still don’t know why people continue to wax their dinner table. Sure you may get a beautiful surface. However a lot of them end up covering it with table clothes, coasters and plates mats which defeats the purpose of the finish. We all know that what will happen when you put hot coffer cups on waxed table.

I find Danish Oil takes a lot of beating. Did a coffe table years ago and its had a hard life. Not to mention a table on our verandah which gets the weather. Still looks good after around 4 years. I usually use around 4 coats on my porjects.

Originally Posted by Leeok

does it come up as a gloss or matt finish?

It comes up as a smooth matt finish.

I like that look but hey I like goth chicks

cheers

dazzler

where's the best place,that has a good range of finishes?

I like the look of two pack,but to hard to repair if damaged,same with polly,that's why I'm leaning towards oils or waxes.

the tables main purpose is decoration,so just looking for some thing that looks good and easy to repair.

cheers Lee

For table surfaces, I have used two coats (brushed) of matt finish estapol (single pack) finished by rubbing in a good coat of a danish oil using oooo steel wool. In fact my dining room table is many years old (I can't remember how many) and still looks good, and it has survived spills from all sorts of alcoholic beverages and many hot teapots. The only maintenance has been using the occasional coating of a good furniture oil.
Jim

I've used Organoil on coffee tables, and it seems to cope well with hot/wet objects. And we know it can be repaired easily
Cheers
Justine

You can lift the gloss level with DO by buffing.