Advice please!
I am making a walnut dining room table. It has breadboards for the ends that will slide out on rails so that I can extend the table to seat 10 people. I glued up the top and it was flat. But like most things, life got in the way and I neglected to get the top finished and mounted on the bottom in a timely manner. So now it is cupping a bit (about 1/4 inch) at the sides. I brought it up from my basement workshop yesterday to get it into its final “environment”. I put cauls on it and clamped it flat. I am wondering if this will get it back to being somewhat flat—or flatter than it is right now. One of the photos is the top on my workbench in the basement. the other two are upstairs in clamps.
How long should I leave it clamped? Should I flip it and reclamp at some point?
My plan is to finish the bottom side with wipe on poly and then mount it to the base with z clips. Hopefully that might hold it flat while I finish the top. Once that is done, I will get the breadboards attached and hopefully the table extensions working.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Gail