John, was browsing some of my earlier project posts and rand across the above. Do you recall the steel banded table I made for my Sister and posted about in August of 2015. You indicated an interest in how it would fare.
It has been more than 3 years since it was built. This is a photo of it as of yesterday and to quote my sister, "I think it's doing great", in a text I got with the photo.
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From the original posting.
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Would like to go see it myself but she is about 80miles north of me and I don't travel well anymore.
Anyway, what do you think. Really hard to tell there is any difference.
It has however stayed in an air-conditioned house and was built in an air-conditioned shop so maybe we got lucky. The timbers and wood used in it had been in my shop for several months so it was fairly well acclimated to air-conditioning.