Is there ever an easy way...?

[Richardwoodhead]

FWIW - here's what Id do... early morning - belt sand with 120 grit. Then brush on (or better, spray on if you can) a heavy coat of Feast Watson FloorSeal (Tung Oil based and VERY durable). Wait about 6 hours. Sand back with an orbital (240 or 320 grit). Apply second coat of FloorSeal. Go home and enjoy a beer. Job is done. And looks great. About 100 man hours of work before the organoil is even beginning to look good. Been down that road too.

[ubeaut]

I'm sure I read the teach doesn't want "polyurethane finishes".

Danish oil is basically watered down polyurethane, and yes PAH1, I'm sorry to burst your bubble but that also including Organoil's Danish which definitely has a poly content.

Why mess around with all this when as suggests a couple of coats of polyu will do the job admirably. Not only that but it will also give the children a good durable, clean and healthy surface to work on. By the way Polyurethane is not a lacquer but a varnish (or about as close as you can get to one today) so you wouldn't be going against the teach's wishes.

The oils in the situation you are talking about would most likely be next to useless. The only sensible, reasonably inexpensive, relatively easy and basically foolproof finish is the poly. But hey, if that's not what she wants, she's the one with the degree and would surely know best, as you say, "she hasn't done you wrong yet".

Cheers - Neil

PS And this is coming from someone who reckons polyurethane is absolutely horrid stuff.

PPS If you want to go a bit more environmentally friendly you could always use the water based poly. Now thar's definitely not a lacquer, probably not even classed as a varnish. Personally I just call it STUFF!! :eek: Mainly because that's what it does to fine furniture. However it would probably be great for your table tops.

[ubeaut]

Whoa..... Where did that one come from? I gotta start typin faster. Good suggestion Richard.

Cheers - Neil

[Rusty]

Morning, all;
All good suggestions and I think the Floorseal might be the way to go. I should add that some confusion may have been caused by my not knowing the difference between a laquer and a varnish.

Neil, I had read some of your previous posts about the polyu. content of Danish oil, But I was prepared to conveniently forget that fact in order to expidate the job, if you know what I mean. I have great respect for the teacher in question, but she's not a furniture maker/finisher, and I'm a bumbling hobbyist. So when she asked me what to do, I asked you lot.

Thanks again, one and all.
Regards,
Russel.