Planning to build a yurt in Czech Republic

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Bob, it's always nice to see your work after a while and find out it's holding up well!
Jafo, good luck with your table! I'm really glad I'm fixing this one. Despite being old and all messed up, such table is much more worth to me than modern overpriced and crappy stuff. We have another old table in the yurt, I guess it must be from the 50s at least and it's good to go, just needs the legs repainted. That table has survived all those years, then been used by my roommate back at the college, who brought it to our appartment and we used it for several years... Then I inherited it when he left and used it pretty roughly as well. Had it as a workbench, with a vice and my reloading press attached to it. Then it travelled across the whole country to my current yurt site, strapped to the roof of my car, in hard rain. Then I used it here as another workbench (most of my photos from making the roof ring show it). I don't know what the board coating is made of, but that stuff is indestructible, it's still flat and straight. Nothing got loose on the bottom part, either. Just needs some paint attention and it's like new. If I bought a new table back at the college for the appartment, it would be history long ago. Funny thing is, that table was likely made as a regular massmade kitchen table, not an undestructible workbench... there was time when people were proud of making quality items, unlike today.