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It serves me right for being a knuckle head!

Second coat is on...and man is that table looking good! As long as that month flying around down in the garage does not make a belly landing on the table, all will be fine. I just helped Deb downstairs to take a look at the table, and she LOVED it!

Tomorrow coat 3 goes on...and that may be all she'll need. The color is getting close to what we want it to be...so a 4th and/or 5th coat may not be needed.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
Forget sanding off two layers of polyurethane based stain. I went to the local family run hardware store and bought a can of super duper stripper.

OBIO
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I was going to suggest you just strip it, light sand, and start over.

I did something similar last summer, which cost me a week on the project. It came out okay in the end. I was pleased with the results. Just look at it as a little lesson.

I think you'll find 3 coats is all you need. I've done 4 and 5, but honestly after the third there isn't that much difference.

Try some paste wax as the final touch.
 
Luckily, the moth did not pull a Panther in the middle of my tacky polyurethane. But a mosquito did! As I was taking the dogs out for their morning potty, I took a close look at the table...and there it was. A skeeter, dead as a door nob, trapped in the poly. Its body was above the poly, but its 6 little legs were definitely fused with the table top.

I opted not to give the table another coat today....letting the first two coats cure for an extra day before I give it a scuffing with some fine grit paper and apply the third and final coat. That should take care of the skeeter legs and really put the KA POW to the table.

Next project...finding four wooden chairs to go with the table. They don't have to match color wise, but they must have the chunkiness that the table has. Big beefy wood...not that spindly crap and definitely not the metal framed chairs we are using now.

OBIO
 
" A skeeter, dead as a door nob, trapped in the poly. Its body was above the poly, but its 6 little legs were definitely fused with the table top."

OBIO,............ya' don't get it. Right now you're sitting on a gold mine. Yes,...a gold mine. You've achieved a pseudo amber resin imprisonment with the mosquito that could reap big bucks for you.
All what you need to do now is: A, Slap on some more poly coats over the doomed skeeter until it builds up well over it's tiny carcass. B, Be sure to tint the poly with a pee-yellow amber color to resemble true amber C, When cured, carefully remove said skeeter from it's poly tomb. D, Shine up pseudo amber piece with buffing wheel E, Sell for an outrageous price to some unsuspecting 'sap.'
 
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