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Tarheel, looks like you did a great job on that table.Keep up the good work.

-- Rick, Jackson, TN "Do What You Like. Like What You Do" Life Is Good

good looking table.

-- Pyromedic602, free wood is always good wood

Very beautiful table. Let me guess its made from walnut.
But by putting the words real wood in inverted commas, I’m so suspicious..

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

looks great man. You probably mean by “real woo” That this is yoiur 1st project using something other than mdf or veneer right?

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Looks good

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Aye “real wood” meaning not MDF. The table is made of poplar with Minwax’s American Walnut stain. I have some MDF projects, but I can’t find the pics.

Thanks for all the kind words!

Looks great. I have seen good results with walnut gel stain on poplar. How did you get blotch free results with regular pigment stain. I know poplar can be a bugger to stain.

-- Jim, SE PA

I was going to use a gel stain, but I had never worked with it and was in a time crunch. The water based stain left some blotches, but nothing really noticeable. I think any blotching had more to do w/ my application than the wood. Once I do some more, I will start blaming the wood.

Poplar is so nice to work with and if it weren’t for the grain paterns , I’d swear it was Walnut from here . That stain is very realistic and you did a great job on the table overall . : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .