How can you get a wooden table top to stop making sticky pitch?
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First off, get some denatured alcohol and wipe it on the "sticky part" so that you remove it.
I would assume its a "pine table top", as pine has a tendency to "soften" and the pitch "run" when it gets hot.
If alcohol doesnt work, then there are other products to "wipe it clean". Let it dry for a day, after this, then put something on it to "seal" it.
Now, you can use some liquid sealer and seal it before you use what ever it is that you want the table to look like. You can even stain it and not bother with the sealer.
You can cover it with spar varnish, polyeurathane, (too soft in my opinion for a table top that is "used" a lot), some marine varnish, enamel, laquer or a myriad of other things.
It depends on the 'use' of the table, and the "hardness" factor on what you want, so that it stands up to punishment.
Pine by its nature will "dent" easily, so, its going to take 6-10 coats to give it some "hardness" of what ever you put on, and a light sanding in between coats.
I wish you well...
Jesse
Sand it and seal it with polyurethane
Is it unfinished? Sounds like it. Polyurethane it and it should be fine.
sounds like the wood was not seasoned long enough. if you seal it now it may not work. let the sap dry, then sand and seal.this may take some time.
Is it pine or Doug fir?? Doug Fir sometimes have a lot of, what they call pitch pockets.What I used to do is dig those pitch pockets out cause they will keep coming out, fill them with wood filler, prime with some Kilz and paint it....This is just one way of doing it, but to really answer this correct you need to give more info..
You can't. whoever made the table top used uncured wood and you will just have to put up with it till it stops. Then you can sand and redo it.
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