This is hopefully the first in several updates about what's happening in the wood shop. I figured this would serve several purposes, one being to remind me to take pictures before the item leaves the shop! I've also resolved to take a "before" picture in the future before I start a rebuild/refinish/repair project.

The last project to leave the shop was a small maple end table. It came to me in pieces that were covered in a dark thick stain. (Actually pieces are good - saves me some disassembly time!) I stripped, scraped, and sanded down to the bare wood (which was actually quite pretty maple). The legs were put in the lathe and virtually re-turned to remove all traces of the dark stain. All hardware went into a box for safekeeping (so far I've not lost anything!). The table top had some dark stains that remained after the original stain was removed (water rings?) that had to be bleached out. To make the top match the rest of the table after the bleaching process, an extremely light stain was applied before the clear sealer coats.

Applying clear sealer is always a challenge, increasing in difficulty with the number of parts involved. This table had a lot of them! Anyway, all the parts were sealed with 5 coats of wipe on polyurethane before final assembly.