Mark Visconti
12-26-2020, 12:06 PM
My kids are doing remote learning and I needed another table. I reclaimed a table from a curbside. The top was junk but the legs and skirt had something like birds eye hickory.
I had wanted to work with sapele and it was the same price as cherry, so I built a .8" thick top that is about 72 x 32. Now the legs on the table are about 1/4" proud of the skirt, so the top rests only on the leg tops. I haven't attached it to the top so it is just resting on them.
Moving it around on Christmas, I noticed the top had bowed up. I didn't measure it, but it is visible - maybe a 1/4". No splitting or cracking between boards is visible. The top was built out of 3 pieces of wider lumber and finished with waterlox on the bottom and top. Any guesses to what happened? It was finished in mid September and I don't remember seeing a bow in it at that time. I did finish the bottom side of the table top before the top. I don't remember if I did a quick seal of the top before finishing the bottom, so I guess the top could have been absorbing moisture (indoor air conditioned shop).
Thanks!
I had wanted to work with sapele and it was the same price as cherry, so I built a .8" thick top that is about 72 x 32. Now the legs on the table are about 1/4" proud of the skirt, so the top rests only on the leg tops. I haven't attached it to the top so it is just resting on them.
Moving it around on Christmas, I noticed the top had bowed up. I didn't measure it, but it is visible - maybe a 1/4". No splitting or cracking between boards is visible. The top was built out of 3 pieces of wider lumber and finished with waterlox on the bottom and top. Any guesses to what happened? It was finished in mid September and I don't remember seeing a bow in it at that time. I did finish the bottom side of the table top before the top. I don't remember if I did a quick seal of the top before finishing the bottom, so I guess the top could have been absorbing moisture (indoor air conditioned shop).
Thanks!