Here's the 2nd Ballerina table I built-the 1st table I posted was actually the 2nd one built. (have I confused you yet)Anyway, this was the 1st time I attempted the Louis cube top with veneer and it was really gappy (i.e. after I sprayed laquer on it the 1st time you could see divets - like a really open grained wood not grain filled) The problem with this was that the 1st coat I sprayed was tinted laquer. So I sanded it down, and tried a couple of different approaches to fill the gaps with my final result being I used bartop epoxy. This smoothed everything out, so I fiqured hey now I can spary color again. We'll laquer does not work over bar top epoxy (or at least it didn't for me) so back to the sanding then I applied some shellac THEN reapplied color. This time it worked, but unfortunatly the color on the top didn't quite match the bottom-which I sprayed months ago. In the end however, because of the shadow the top throws over the bottom you can't tell, especially indoors. Now put it outside in direct sunlight and we've got a problem. Alas, this is one of those personal 1st tries that look good but you keep around the house to remind yourself of mistakes not to make again.
On a side note, as I was making all these "ballerina" tables I experimented with the foot design a little and came up with a solid wood foot that gives that "en pointe" look even better than the holly and banded foot.
On a side note, as I was making all these "ballerina" tables I experimented with the foot design a little and came up with a solid wood foot that gives that "en pointe" look even better than the holly and banded foot.