Reply by Dan

I just read again and saw you gave the time frame… 8 months to a year is a very short time for the wood to get bugs like that. Especially if its in the living room. If the client had termites or bugs in his house then he would have seen damage to other things before the table.

My best bet is there were some eggs in the wood that hatched and 8 months seems about a decent time frame for the bugs to have worked there way out to where noticeable damage would start showing.

-- Dan - "Collector of Hand Planes"