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Thread: Finish for new outfeed table

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    Finish for new outfeed table

    Looking for suggestions on what finish to use on my new out feed table. Its made of 3/ 4birch plywood with wood hole pugs over the screws and Is trimmed in hard maple. Looking for a finish that will hold up and look good doing it.

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    If you can use sprayed solvent-based finish, satin pre-catalyzed lacquer.

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    I used a few coats of Zinsser orange (amber) shellac, rubbed it out w/a green scotch brite then put a couple coats of paste wax on.

    I made my outfeed out of some red oak plywood I had.
    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

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    Formica.

    Larry

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    + 1 Formica
    Thanks John
    Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway!

  6. I covered mine with some Formica, it's been great to work on and doubles as an assembly table that glue comes off of easily.

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    Steven

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    Slop on whatever old finish you have laying around that needs thrown out...then paste wax.
    Wood: a fickle medium....

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    I like the Formica idea, I'm building a torsion box out of birch plywood and maple. How about the underside, it seems like any time I finish just one side of something it bows.

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    I have formica on mine and second the others on that as a very functional surface.

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