You know me, I'm not ashamed to share before a piece is done. And that's probably good. You get much more detail this way. Too much detail detracts if you want to go through something fast, like a FB post or a Tweet, but if you want assistance or later reference for trying out something for yourself, well..., provided you take the time to go through the volumes, that is to say.
And so, I looked back on when I first mentioned the galley counter top and/or dinette table. September of 2015. :) Wow!
Anyway, I talked about prematurely needing to cut a part off the counter top board, due to an automotive transmission oil spill in the garage soaking up into one end of the grain. Yikes!
Here's how that looked on the bench.
It's a light color wood. We specifically chose that. With the darker colors in the camper, and the prairie wheat colored gimp and trim, we had decided long ago to make the counter top and dinette table up in the same color as the trim. Here's the wood we chose.
It's 3/4" thick boards, laminated edge to edge. Or more correctly, thicker boards laminated and planed to 3/4". Aspen is pretty, both when growing and as a building material. Rocky Mountain Quaking Aspen, I should say.
When we lived in Fairbanks many people called the Black Cottonwoods Aspens, and they weren't as pretty. Looked like birch when young and then got a black bark with age and eventually rotted from the inside. When the infrequent higher winds came by, look out, widow-makers.
Anyway this is for the dinette table.
So we're finishing in neutral stain, and then the multiple coats of clear gloss poly.
Now let's slip over to Chapter 10. Galley & Greatroom to talk about build.
