Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
resurfacing a shuffleboard table surface.
Jim Young
I just came into possession a 12 ft. shuffleboard table for my game room. Upon inspection of the playing surface there are a few spots where the polyurethane finish has been chipped down to the bare wood surface so I am about to re-finish the entire surface.
Any tips, advice, or suggestions from someone with experience at doing this would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
Jim Young
Re: resurfacing a shuffleboard table surface.
Steve jenkins
When I needed to strip some bowling lanes to make conference tables I hired a guy that refinished hardwood floors to sand off the old finish then I did the final sanding and finishing. It only took me a couple minutes with a hand held belt sander to decide there had to be a better way.
Re: resurfacing a shuffleboard table surface.
David Weaver
Stanley 82 to scrape the bulk of the finish off and then sand. Presuming the surface doesn't have thin veneers that could be scraped off or corners broken out from.
Re: resurfacing a shuffleboard table surface.
Barry Irby
My friend buys shuffle board tables at freight auctions and resells them. I have seen several that had chipped and damaged finish. They appeared to me to be some sort of epoxy finish a 1/16 or maybe 1/8" thick. Perhaps they are not all the same. I would have to do some research to even start repairing an epoxy finish.
Option 2
David Weaver
Finish repair techniques used on electric guitars with two part (extremely hard and chippy) polyurethane finishes. It may be worth browsing a few of those products if the chips are a small % of the surface.
Re: resurfacing a shuffleboard table surface.
walta
The factory finish was likely a thick epoxy but it could have been refinished with anything.
You may be able to spot repair the damage and wet sand and polish it out.
https://www.woodcraft.com/products/mirror-coat-system-three-top-coat-1-1-2-pint#