Building one now and plan to put just wax on it after it is done. Something like Kerf wood cream or mylands wax. First concern is the beauty of the wood. Let it age darker naturally. If you were doing this project how would you finish it off ? Thank you.
Personally, I would use something a bit more durable for a table than wax. Wax offers virtually no protection at all. A table tends to get abused a bit be it from beverage containers or lamps or clocks or whatever you place on it. I'm sure I'll get flamed here but I would consider polyurethane at least on the top. The wood will darken regardless of the finish you put on it unless it's got some type of UV inhibitor in it. I tend to use lacquer on a lot of my projects but for a table I would revert to poly.
My personal opinion is that, unlike cherry for example, padauk looks best with no darkening. My choice for the padauk table I made was a marine spar varnish. If I was going to use a finish that offered no UV protection and was easily repaired, I'd go with shellac.
todd
One coat of Danish oil, followed by two coats of Waterlox original, then waxed.
Gee, it's amazing that almost all production furniture around has either lacquer or poly and yet I don't see scores of people racing down to the furniture refinisher to repair their tables.
Now, the big question...why couldn't you just state your opinion and not inject sarcasm? That's exactly why I swore off of the Wreck a year ago. I came back hoping things would be better but now I'm not so sure.
The wreck never really gets better, you just learn to ignore the crap. Hang around and just ignore those incapable of playing nice.
PK
Yeah, I know. It's just like the real world.
In reality it was very late, I was very tired, I was very think skinned. No harm done I just overreacted.
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