Hi everyone,
I have a large conference table that is going to be repurposed as our kitchen table.
I made the table a few years ago, it's a fairly large (and very heavy) side grain red oak table that was dyed and then finished with multiple coats of shellac and then (if I remember correctly) a clear lacquer. It has a really nice, deep finish that I love, but it is somewhat fragile. Maybe fragile isn't the right word - it's just not as durable as say, a poly-finished table would be.
As a conference table in my law office, it was fine (although we did have an issue with a pizza box during one relatively late night), but as a dinner table I'm concerned that I'm going to have issues.
So I'm looking for suggestions on protecting this thing. Is there something that I could use as a topcoat to make it more durable?
Or am I just being overly paranoid?