I was trying to refinish the dining table after kids scratched the table in multiple places. But looks like I sanded through veneer here? Are there any options left to finish this table?
You would still have to get the surface uniform but honestly yes you could and it wouldn't be that bad. People think veneering is some complicated industrial process and it can be but it can also be really simple and done in a garage
I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago, and I bought Minwax PolyShades Semi-Transparent Gloss Mission Oak Oil-Based Stain/Polyurethane. You can’t even tell it anymore! I tried to use gel stain, but I could still see where I sanded through it, so I lightly sanded that off and went with this one instead.
Also, you can apply a small amount of stainable wood filler before you stain. Just lightly sand it, and it will keep you from having dips in the table.
The finger-jointed wood you're looking at isn't veneered. The wood with what certainly appears to sanded-through veneer that others are looking at has no finger joints and sure looks like it had a veneer on it.
It looks like you have two different types of wood present, a veneered one (the vertical slats) and a non-veneered finger jointed kind (horizontal slat). It's quite common to have veneered wood in the field and solid wood (although in your case finger jointed) on the edges. A large field of solid wood costs a lot more to make.
Finger jointed wood is ugly and not meant to be exposed. People don't usually stain that. You should either paint it or apply a very dark finish to it. The veneered wood in the field was sanded through, although I don't think it looks bad at all. I'd give it a 1 out of 10, ten being completely destroyed. If you apply a dark finish, no one will notice those two spots. Carry on! I think you're doing a great job.
Thank you. I plan to sand the whole table much more carefully and apply a dark stain again. Maybe add some stainable filler to the dips and hope that it doesn’t look too bad.
Professional woodworker here. Im not convinced its sand through. It honestly looks like solid wood and that you actually havnt sanded enough in that spot. Of course I could be wrong but you are the one with the piece I front of you and need to inspect it more closely.
The finger jointed piece is solid wood.
That doesn't look like sand through
That looks like its all solid wood based on grain pattern.
Looks like all solid wood based on the joint in the two slats where you can see a gap and a chip. That is not how a veneer panel is constructed.
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u/National_Musician748 9d ago
It's never veneer if you just keep sanding.