Even more poly

?My wife and decided that we liked the lighter stain that I worked in with a rag and wiped off quickly.  I applied a third coat of poly last night and it is starting to look like a finish.  I have a feeling that I am going to have to apply 4 or 5 coats total to get the finish that I want.  If everything goes according to plan I will be staining and finishing the hall tree this weekend.  Ive never stained or finished anything this big so it is going to be interesting to see how eveything turns out.

I lightly sanded it with 220 and then put on the 3rd coat at 9:30 pm last night.

This was at 8:30 am this morning.  I only put the 3rd coat on the piece on the bottom.

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The kid tables tabletop is done

I got all 5 coats of poly on the tabletop last week and was able to get the second coat on the bottom over the weekend.  I am helping a friend to get his SEMA project finished and then will be in Vegas next for the SEMA convention so I dont anticipate putting the finish on the legs until I get back.  I would be really interested to see how long it would take me to make another one of these tables if I had the time to just work on it until it was done.

Wow, what a difference sanding between coats makes.

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