Thread: 2 questions about this refinishing this table...

I'll see if I can get the pictures to display...table 3.jpgtable 2.jpgtable 1.jpg

I'm thinking it does have a grain similliar to the teak I have seen but not sure really, colour seems to be a bit red, might be the finish tho? Teak does have a distictive smell to it.


Pete

Thanks Pete,
I did think that it might have been stained, but the unfinished underneath side of the table seems a bit red.
Just down the street from where I live is a company called Annagate that sells interesting timber. I might take it there and see what they reckon it might be.
Do you think sanding would be the best way to get rid if the gloss? I don't have much experience with strippers.

Seeing as you have the ROS and if the finish is some years old it should be a reasonable way to remove it, it can be a pain tho if it starts clogging the paper, you want to start at a grade that is not too coarse but one that is removing the finish, not clogging and not roughing the timber up too much either, strippers are a bit too much excitment for blokes like me with a dicky ticker not to mention SWMBO, for a simple small piece like you have there sanding and maybe a blade scraper with a sharp edge will do the trick for the close corners.


Pete

Thanks Pete. I'll give it a go next weekend with the sander - I'm always looking for excuses to use it.

Looks like red cedar but it wouldn't be hard and heavy. If you can dent it with a thumbnail underneath then it will be cedar.