Morning All,
After filling all knots with epoxy and sanding down to final finish I found 2 small tight knots with a gap about 1/4" long X 1/32" wide. Hard to tell the depth of such a narrow defect but it seems like it could be deeper than 1/8". Hindsight being 20/20 I should have addressed it at that point.
I've now put on 8 coats of oil based wipe on poly (miniwax brand) and the table looks great but these defect still exists; they might be ever so slightly narrower. I had thought that allowing the poly to pool there each coat while finishing the rest of the table would eventually fill it in and level it out but that hasn't been the case.
I think I'm going to vacuum up the floor real good and do one final coat for good measure but I was hoping someone might have a suggestion of something I could fill this gap with before (or after) applying my final coat. It would be nice to put something in there that won't interfere with my ability to refinish down the road. I was thinking about using wax but it seems like that might cause major problems when/if I try an refinish at a later date. Maybe I just try to touch up this spot w/ wipe on every evening for the next week or two after the table has been put into service?
I should mention I'm on a tight timeline as my daughters birthday is next week. Normally we would use a sheet of plywood ontop of our existing table to seat some additional guests but I've cut it up to use for jigs, sleds, ect in the process of making this table .
Colin
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