Hi! I have a very old table that I know virtually nothing about but it is starting to splinter along the bottom edges of the top. It wasn’t well cared for for at least a decade and oiling made a huge difference because it was very dry, but it didn’t help the splinters. I’m not sure how it is finished or anything and have no idea how to fix the splintering and it continues to worsen as it catches on clothes etc. Any thoughts would be appreciated! Photos included of the table/wood and splintering areas.
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Nmc1313
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What tools do you have access to, and how much can you disassemble the table? If you can take the top of the table off and have access to a router, running over those edges with a roundover or chamfer bit would make short work of it. Failing that, if you have a hand plane, using that to put a chamfer on the edges would be my second choice
Course, the most basic way would be sandpaper on a block, and thats certainly works, but personally i hate trying to use sandpaper on a splintered edge. Never fails that a splinter catches on the paper and tears it
Course, the most basic way would be sandpaper on a block, and thats certainly works, but personally i hate trying to use sandpaper on a splintered edge. Never fails that a splinter catches on the paper and tears it
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