re: Hoffmann Side Table

Great comments people!

Hah! It has my logo on the underside of the top, below the tile 🤠

That was me being lazy.
The top needed something durable since that is where the "bad" stuff happens. I've never used Arm-R-Seal before so I figured it was time to try. I sprayed the first coat and gave it a good rub in, then followed with 2 more sprayed coats With 24 hours and #0000 between. Osmo is a finish I really like, #1 being it's easy to apply, but I don't feel it's up to something that probably will have cups w/o coasters set on it. I could have used the Arm-R on the base, but doing more than one coat would have been a nightmare to try and scuff sand all those holes. With the Osmo, I get a great finish (for looks) and only have to do the wipe down once. Took about 3 hours getting the 64 holes thoroughly wiped and then there were all the additional crannies, ugh!

Petey: I hope the cross grain joints hold up! The expansion calculator came up with about 1/32" over the "trapped" joint area, hoping that since it was really low humidity when glued, full humidity will make the expanding board compress and not split!