Firstly I need to thank someone, I was reading a post last week where someone mentioned buying a table from gumtree for parts. As my daughter is moving soon and she wanted a table "Bingo" she found one just down the road. It is a John Lewis table 20 years old it cost £2000 when new they were asking £25.
Clearly we bought it and collected it.
The top as you can see is worn no worse than my neighbours restaraunt tables. The picture below is one of the rails with the only marking I can see. It looks to be an oak base they are dovetailed into the side pieces. I think the top is oak veneer the underneath has a fine grain with a red tone it looks like sapelle.
2022-01-22_06-43-25 by my0771, on Flickr
2022-01-22_06-29-25 by my0771, on Flickr
It has been a family table for a long time and has some felt tip marks and scratches along with some heavy wear.
Some of the surface that has worn is significantly lower than the unworn areas can I build up layers of varinsh I plan to use the water based floor varnish as reccomended by Bob. Or should I sand the whole thing and varnish the whole thing??