Planning to build a yurt in Czech Republic

[Bob Rowlands]

That table is very nice. I did a big built in for some clients in 2005. At the end of the job, I redid the top of their kitchen table. This wasn't a typical hardwood dining table. The clients had found the table abandoned along a road! and took it home. It was actually a picnic table built with construction lumber and 4x4 post legs-no bench seats. Four wobbly legs and a top so cupped there literally wasn't a flat spot anywhere to set the dishes on. I mean cupped. How cupped? After planing and sanding the top boards flat the thickness was 3/4 at the edge of the 2X6s! I had to reset all the screws to keep my planer blades from getting eaten, and to solidify the boards they were all loose. I told them a good finish would be several coats of WB poly.

OK so fast forward several years. They called me back to do some other built ins in their new home. Well I'll be darned if they didn't still have that same table in the kitchen! I checked out how flat the top had stayed. It was still dead flat like the day I redid it. Amazing! The mom wanted to know why the table top was always sticky. Well they had 5 kids by then and another one on the way. That poly had been wiped to death. lol