Thread: Oak Table Refinish / Restore

Hello,

If your finding the sandpaper is too hard to cut the coating down, then your best bet would be to use a paint remover. The coating is probaly Polyurethane, or one of the other 2 pak coating.

The stripper should remover the ring, and the other defects. After you get it stripped down and cleaned up, let us know if you see any discoloration in the woods.

I think the wood is red oak.

Good Luck

Thanks for the reply. I found info on using non-clogging sandpaper and was able to sand down the coffee table with that and am refinishing with minwax polyurethane. Once that is done, it is on to the dining table. Wood is red oak as you noted.

With the dining table, I had planned to remove and sand individual pieces of the top in the garage to avoid getting dust in the house. However, I have some concern that different grain in the different pieces will require different amounts of sanding and I may end up with noticeable edges where the pieces fit back together when done.

Perhaps I should set up the whole table in the garage and sand and finish the top as one piece?

There are many an oak table here in the States that look just like that. I am watching this thread with interest to see your results. My wife is after me to refinish a coffee table made out of the same stuff.